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Alfred Adler [1870-1937] Austrian

Rank: 101
Psychologist, Psychotherapist

Alfred W. Adler was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. His emphasis on the importance of feelings of inferiority—the inferiority complex—is recognized as an isolating element which plays a key role in personality development.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.		101
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.		102
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.	Future, War	103
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.		104
Man knows much more than he understands.		105
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.		106
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.	Art, Experience, Power	107
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.	Attitude	108
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.	God	109
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.	Freedom, Truth	110
A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.		111
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.		112
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.	Life	113
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.	War	114
The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.		115
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.	Death	116
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.	Peace, Science	117
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.	Family	118
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.	Experience, Failure, Success	119
My difficulties belong to me!		120
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.		121
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.		122
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.		123
Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.		124
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.	Brainy	125
There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.		126
We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.		201
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.		202
The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.	Relationship, Society	203
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.		204
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.	Politics	205
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.		206
The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.		207
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.	Patriotism	208

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