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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
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There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
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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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Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.
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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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Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.
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You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.
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In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him he is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
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What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?
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War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
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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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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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We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
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The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
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The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.
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Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality.
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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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My difficulties belong to me!
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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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I am grateful for the idea that has used me.
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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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