Alfred Adler quotes Born: 02/07/1870 Died: 05/28/1937 Country: austria

• The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. (Alfred Adler)
• There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure. (Alfred Adler)
• To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. (Alfred Adler)
• 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. (Alfred Adler)
• War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. (Alfred Adler)
• War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. (Alfred Adler)
• We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn. (Alfred Adler)
• We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms (Alfred Adler)
• If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change. (Alfred Adler)
• Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery. (Alfred Adler)
• I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning (Alfred Adler)
• The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and un-fulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity. (Alfred Adler)
• 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! (Alfred Adler)
• 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 (Alfred Adler)
• All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest (Alfred Adler)
• The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal. (Alfred Adler)
• The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex. (Alfred Adler)
• It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them. (Alfred Adler)
• 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! (Alfred Adler)
• There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. (Alfred Adler)
• 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. (Alfred Adler)
• Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not any hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient Stimulus to be creative. (Alfred Adler)
• 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 (Alfred Adler)
• We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms. (Alfred Adler)

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