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I am grateful for the idea that has used me.

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
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In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
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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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There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
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The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
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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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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.
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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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To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
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The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.
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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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Every neurotic is partly in the right.
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He used to say to his melancholia patients: You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.
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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.
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Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
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More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality.
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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 test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
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Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.
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