Alfred Adler Quotes - Page 2

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• Everything can always be different!

  Alfred Adler

  Different

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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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  Success, Congratulations, Failure

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• All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest

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  Suicide, Children, Failure

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• The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.

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  Goal, Psychology, Feelings

  From a new translation of "Progress in Individual Psychology" by Alfred Adler, in the AAISF/ATP Archives, 1923.

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• We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

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  Inferiority, Temper, Bad Temper

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• The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Men

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• What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

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  Real, Risk, May

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• The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.

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  Goal, Perfection, Soul

  Alfred Adler (1998). “Social Interest: Adler's Key to the Meaning of Life”, Oneworld Publications Limited

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• A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

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  Truth, Lying, Danger In Life

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• Man knows much more than he understands.

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  Men, Understanding, Knows

  Alfred Adler (1998). “Social Interest: Adler's Key to the Meaning of Life”, Oneworld Publications Limited

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• 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.

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  Real, Creativity, Blessing

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• Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you.

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  Heart, Follow Your Heart, Remember

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• The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.

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  Life, Struggle, Feelings

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• 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.

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  God, Stars, Fate

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• There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

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  Sorrow, Wells

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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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  Truth, Lying, Reality

  Problems of Neurosis (1929) ch. 2

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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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  Behaviour, Sides, Failing

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Mean, Emotional

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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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  Sides, Steps, Useless

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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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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  Heart, Eye, Empathy

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• The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.

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  Relationship, Sex, Patterns

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• Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

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  Peace, War, Knowing

  Alfred Adler (2002). “The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler, Volume 1: Fundamentals of Individual Psychology and Psychotherapy: the Neurotic Character”, p.89, Alfred Adler Institute

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• The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to find his way. We proceed much the same when we divide the earth by meridians and parallels, for only thus do we obtain fixed points which we can bring into a relationship with one another.

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  Children, Order, Mind

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• What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?

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  Small Rooms, Tea, Cosy

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