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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.

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
Teacher
Principles
Berlioz
Fighting
Hector
Live
Pupils
Great
Kills
Time
Unfortunately
Easier
Fight

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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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In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him he is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
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To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.
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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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In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
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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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We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a getaway. We cannot love and be limited.
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Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
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My difficulties belong to me!
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It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
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The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.
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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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The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
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Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you.
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