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Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
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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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.
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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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Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
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To be human means to feel inferior.
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Every neurotic is partly in the right.
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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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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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The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
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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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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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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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The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
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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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