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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
Understands
Understanding
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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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In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
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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.
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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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War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
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Every neurotic is partly in the right.
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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
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Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.
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All failures are so because they lack social interest.
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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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The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
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Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.
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Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
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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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What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.
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The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
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My psychology belongs to everyone.
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Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their research harms no one, but it is of no importance at all. A mathematician is great or he is nothing.
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
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We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
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