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The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
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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War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
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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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Follow your heart but take your brain with you.
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More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality.
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The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
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Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.
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Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
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The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.
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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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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.
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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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Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.
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It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
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