Austrian - Psychologist | February 7, 1870 - May 28, 1937
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.
Alfred Adler
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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 the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
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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.
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To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
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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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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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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.
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War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
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War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
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