Alfred Adler Quotes (67 Quotes)


    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.

    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.

    My passions are the grapes that I tread out for mankind.

    In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is.

    You cannot divide the individual, man is a whole human being.


    Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared but only men of character are trusted.

    All inherited possibilities and all influences of the body, all environmental influences, including educational application, are perceived, assimilated, digested, and answered by a living and striving being, striving for a successful achievement in h.

    There are thousands of degrees and variations, but it is always clearly the attitude of a person who finds his superiority in solving the complications of others.

    We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

    Behind everyone who behaves as if he were superior to others, we can suspect a feeling of inferiority which calls for very special efforts of concealment. It is as if a man feared that he was too small and walked on his toes to make himself seem tall

    One of the most interesting complexes is the redeemer complex. It characterizes people who conspicuously but unknowingly take the attitude that they must save or redeem someone.

    War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

    Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for superiority, and is therefore retarded in the development of his social interest, as we find regularly among

    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.

    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.

    If anyone asks me why he should love his neighbor, I would not know how to answer him, and I could only ask in my turn why he should pose such a question. It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties.

    The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.


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