| |  | | | | | Quotations by author » Alfred Adler
Austrian psychiatrist whose influential system of individual psychology introduced the term inferiority feeling, later widely and often inaccurately called inferiority complex, 1870-1937 | | Quotes: 61 - 75 of 75 | Pages: First Previous 1 2 3 4 | | | | | | To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. | | Uncategorized | | | To be human means to feel inferior. | | Humanity | | | To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations. | | Uncategorized | | | 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. | | Eyes; Feelings | | | War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. | | Uncategorized | | | War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. | | Uncategorized | | | We can comprehend every single life phenomenon, as if the past, the present, and the future together with a superordinate, guiding idea were present in it in traces. | | Life; Time | | | We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn. | | Children | | | We live upon the contributions of our ancestors. Nature is a good scavenger. She soon gets rid of her rubbish. | | Uncategorized | | | We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority | | Uncategorized | | | We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms. | | Uncategorized | | | 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. | | Uncategorized | | | What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - 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! | | Graduation; Life; Mistakes; Persistence | | | When we know the goal of a person, we know approximately what will follow. | | Uncategorized | | | You cannot divide the individual, man is a whole human being. | | Uncategorized | | | | | | | |
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