Alfred Adler quotes - page 2

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. (Alfred Adler)
We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms. View quote
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We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. View quote
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To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. View quote
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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. (Alfred Adler)
He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription. Try to think every day how you can please someone. View quote
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The test of one's behavior pattern relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex. View quote
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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared but only men of character are trusted. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest. View quote
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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. View quote
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The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful. View quote
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We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a getaway. We cannot love and be limited. View quote
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It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all. (Alfred Adler)
If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles. View quote
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To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations. View quote
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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. View quote
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The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him. View quote
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