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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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I am grateful for the idea that has used me.
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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.
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The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.
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No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
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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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The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
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It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
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Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you.
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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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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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It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
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Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
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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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War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
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The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
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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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Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.
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Man knows much more than he understands.
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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.
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Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
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