Quote

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alfred Adler

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alfred Adler
Age: 67 †
Born: 1870
Born: February 7
Died: 1937
Died: May 28
Ophthalmologist
Psychiatrist
Psychotherapist
Vienna
Austria
Sense
Felt
Truth
Would
Danger
Unless
Dangerous
Lying

More quotes by Alfred Adler

Image
There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
Alfred Adler
Image
Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.
Alfred Adler
Image
My difficulties belong to me!
Alfred Adler
Image
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.
Alfred Adler
Image
The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.
Alfred Adler
Image
All failures are so because they lack social interest.
Alfred Adler
Image
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.
Alfred Adler
Image
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
Alfred Adler
Image
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
Alfred Adler
Image
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.
Alfred Adler
Image
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.
Alfred Adler
Image
The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.
Alfred Adler
Image
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler
Image
What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler
Image
My psychology belongs to everyone.
Alfred Adler
Image
What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?
Alfred Adler
Image
Every neurotic is partly in the right.
Alfred Adler
Image
It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.
Alfred Adler
Image
If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.
Alfred Adler
Image
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Alfred Adler