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Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.
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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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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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
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Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.
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My difficulties belong to me!
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We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
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Every neurotic is partly in the right.
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Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
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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.
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