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Man knows much more than he understands.

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
Understands
Understanding
Much
Men

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Every neurotic is partly in the right.
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The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
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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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Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.
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