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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

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 Failure Experience Suits Cause Our Out No Experience Purposes Make Shock Just So-Called Experiences Them Trauma Suffer

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

Inferiority Sign Bad Must Temper Interpret

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

Fight Brainy Live Easier Principles Up Than Them

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

My difficulties belong to me! Alfred Adler

Me Difficulties Belong

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

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

Inferiority Feeling Exaggerated Expression

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

Work Relationship Behavior Sex Society Test Pattern

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. Alfred Adler

War Our Torture Brothers Against Organized

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

Man Patriotism Lie Country Duty Every His Patriotic Every Man

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