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Alfred Adler

Austrian Psychologist

Born: Feb 7, 1870

Died: May 28, 1937

Every Inferiority Man Patient Truth War

Related authors: Anna Freud Helene Deutsch Otto Rank Paul Watzlawick Sigmund Freud Viktor E. Frankl Wilhelm Reich

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

Life You Too Danger Take Chief May Many

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

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

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

Truth Lie Dangerous Sense Unless Would No Sense Felt Were

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

Ourselves Determine Give Determined Situations Meanings

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

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

Inferiority Feeling Exaggerated Expression

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