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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
Men
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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.
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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.
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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
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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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The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
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It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
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There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
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War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
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The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.
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The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him.
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It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.
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To be human means to feel inferior.
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seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
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