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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
Brain
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Heart
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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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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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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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Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
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There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
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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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Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
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Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.
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The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him.
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The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
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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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It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
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It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
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We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
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In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is.
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My difficulties belong to me!
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I am grateful for the idea that has used me.
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Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.
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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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It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
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