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My psychology belongs to everyone.

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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Psychology
Everyone

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It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
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The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
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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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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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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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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!
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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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All failures are so because they lack social interest.
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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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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 no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
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We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared but only men of character are trusted.
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Every neurotic is partly in the right.
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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.
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There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
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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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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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