| A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. Alfred Adler Quotes |
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| A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view Alfred Adler |
| All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest Alfred Adler Quotes |
| All neurotic symptoms have as their object the task of safeguarding the patient's self-esteem and thereby also the lifeline into which he has grown. Alfred Adler |
| Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not any hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient Stimulus to be creative. Alfred Adler |
| Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it. Alfred Adler |
| If the truth is there, bad writing won't hurt it ! Alfred Adler |
| If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else. Alfred Adler Quotes |
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| If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else. Alfred Adler |
| Imperfect preparation gives rise to the thousand-fold forms that express physical and mental inferiority and insecurity. Alfred Adler |
| In God's nature, religious mankind perceives the way to height. In His call it hears again the innate voice of life which must have its direction towards the goal of perfection, towards overcoming the feeling of lowliness and transistorizes of the ex Alfred Adler Sayings |
| In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family. Alfred Adler |
| It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler Remarks |
| It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler |
| It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler |
| It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them. Alfred Adler Adages |
| It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all. Alfred Adler Adages |
| It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes. Alfred Adler Sayings |
| Let yourself be guided in your pedagogic interventions especially by the observations you have made on the results of your former interventions. Alfred Adler |
| Man knows much more than he understands. Alfred Adler Popular Quotes |
| Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. Alfred Adler Remarks |
| More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality. Alfred Adler Adages |
| No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes. Alfred Adler |
| One of the most interesting complexes is the redeemer complex. It characterizes people who conspicuously but unknowingly take the attitude that they must save or redeem someone. Alfred Adler |
| Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery. Alfred Adler Popular Quotes |
| The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. Alfred Adler Sayings |
| The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. Alfred Adler Adages |
| The educator of a child must get to know his tendentious apperception and remove it. Alfred Adler Remarks |
| The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment ... both of individuals and of humanity. Alfred Adler Remarks |
| The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and un-fulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity. Alfred Adler Remarks |
| The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to fin Alfred Adler Adages |
| The human soul, as a part of the movement of life, is endowed with the ability to participate in the uplift, elevation, perfection, and completion. Alfred Adler |
| The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well. Alfred Adler |
| The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul. Alfred Adler Remarks |
| The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex. Alfred Adler |
| The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth. Alfred Adler |
| There are thousands of degrees and variations, but it is always clearly the attitude of a person who finds his superiority in solving the complications of others. Alfred Adler Quotations |
| There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow. Alfred Adler |
| There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish. Alfred Adler |
| There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure. Alfred Adler |
| There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side. Alfred Adler |
| To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations. Alfred Adler Quotes |
| To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling. Alfred Adler |
| Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. Alfred Adler |
| Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. Alfred Adler |
| War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. Alfred Adler Remarks |
| We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn. Alfred Adler Quotations |
| We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited. Alfred Adler Sayings |
| We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited. Alfred Adler Adages |
| What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live! Alfred Adler |
