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Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

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
Heart
Follow
Brain
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To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
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It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.
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If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.
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We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
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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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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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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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Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.
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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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Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you.
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War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
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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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It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
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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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It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others.
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To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
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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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We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.
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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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