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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.
Alfred Adler
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Alfred Adler
Age: 67 †
Born: 1870
Born: February 7
Died: 1937
Died: May 28
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Vienna
Austria
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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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Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
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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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The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
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To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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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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I am grateful for the idea that has used me.
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Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
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Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
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The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.
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It is very obvious that we are not influenced by facts but by our interpretation of the facts.
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