Words matter. These are the best Alfred Adler Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
The test of one’s behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
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.
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.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
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.
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.
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.
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
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.
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma – but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
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.
Man knows much more than he understands.
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
