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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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Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.
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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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In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
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The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
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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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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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To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.
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