Alfred Adler Quotes

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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.

Alfred Adler
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Alfred Adler
Mathematics, like chess, requires too direct and personal a confrontation to allow graceful defeat.

Alfred Adler
It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others.

Alfred Adler
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

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 essential feature of mathematical creativity is the exploration, under the pressure of powerful implosive forces, of difficult problems for whose validity and importance the explorer is eventually held accountable by reality.

Alfred Adler
In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him; he is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

Alfred Adler
The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.

Alfred Adler
Mathematics is whatever mathematicians are doing.

Alfred Adler
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.

Alfred Adler
Mathematics is pure language — the language of science.

Alfred Adler
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.

Alfred Adler
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom of responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

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

Alfred Adler
Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their research harms no one, but it is of no importance at all. A mathematician is great or he is nothing.

Alfred Adler
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Alfred Adler
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Alfred Adler
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.

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

Alfred Adler