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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
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Alfred Adler
Age: 67 †
Born: 1870
Born: February 7
Died: 1937
Died: May 28
Ophthalmologist
Psychiatrist
Psychotherapist
Vienna
Austria
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More quotes by Alfred Adler
We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.
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If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.
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There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
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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.
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It is very obvious that we are not influenced by facts but by our interpretation of the facts.
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Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.
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If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.
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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.
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Every neurotic is partly in the right.
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Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.
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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.
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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.
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It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
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The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
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Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.
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It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring.
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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
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared but only men of character are trusted.
Alfred Adler
He used to say to his melancholia patients: You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.
Alfred Adler
To be human means to feel inferior.
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