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Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you.
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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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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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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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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seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
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