Austrian - Psychologist | February 7, 1870 - May 28, 1937
There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
Alfred Adler
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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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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.
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
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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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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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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
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My difficulties belong to me!
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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.
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Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
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We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
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The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
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