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My psychology belongs to everyone.
— Alfred Adler
I am grateful for the idea that has used me.
— Alfred Adler
Follow your heart but take your brain with you.
— Alfred Adler
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
— Alfred Adler
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
— Alfred Adler
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
— Alfred Adler
What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?
— Alfred Adler
All failures are so because they lack social interest.
— Alfred Adler
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory ... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
— Alfred Adler
Everything can always be different!
— Alfred Adler
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.
— Alfred Adler
There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
— Alfred Adler
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
— Alfred Adler
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
— Alfred Adler
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
— Alfred Adler
It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts"
but by our interpretation of the facts. — Alfred Adler
but by our interpretation of the facts. — 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.
— Alfred Adler
Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.
— Alfred Adler
The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
— Alfred Adler
Seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
— Alfred Adler
You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.
— Alfred Adler
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
— 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
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
— 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
The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.
— Alfred Adler
My difficulties belong to me!
— Alfred Adler
The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
— Alfred Adler
Man knows much more than he understands.
— Alfred Adler
Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.
— Alfred Adler
To be human means to feel inferior.
— Alfred Adler
We learn in friendship to look with the eyes of another person, to listen with her ears, and to feel with her heart.
— Alfred Adler
Violence as a way of gaining power ... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security ...
— Alfred Adler
There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
— Alfred Adler
Every pampered child becomes a hated child ... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.
— 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
We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
— Alfred Adler
Every neurotic is partly in the right.
— Alfred Adler