Alfred Adler Quotes

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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler

Life, May, Danger

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

Simple, Hard, Person

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
Alfred Adler

God, Human, Single

The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.
Alfred Adler

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler

Emotional, Powerful, Feeling

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler

Emotional, Powerful, Feeling

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler

Live, Fight, Principles

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
Alfred Adler

Give, Ourselves, Determined

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
Alfred Adler

Feeling, Expression

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

Success, Experience, Failure

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

Power, Art, Experience

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
Alfred Adler

Truth, Lie, Sense

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
Alfred Adler

Bad, Temper, Sign

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

Life, Family, Patient

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

Peace, Nature, Science

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
Alfred Adler

Talent, Pressure

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

Love, Law, Learn

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
Alfred Adler

Great, Death, Real

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Alfred Adler

Truth, Lie, Often

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Alfred Adler

Patriotism, Lie, Country

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
Alfred Adler

Fiction, Cross, Neurotic

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

Long, Understand, Individual

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

Cannot, Become, Child

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
Alfred Adler

Work, Society, Sex

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
Alfred Adler

Truth, Freedom, Him

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Psychologist

Born: February 7, 1870

Died: May 28, 1937

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