Quotes by Alfred Adler

Alfred Adler

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Danger In Life

Lying

Truth

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.

People

Simple

Views

Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.

Courageous

Guarantees

Risk

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.

Blessing

Creativity

Real

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.

Fate

Long

Suffering

Every pampered child becomes a hated child…. There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.

Children

Evil

Pampering

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.

Awkward

Responsibility

Tears

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

Expression

Feelings

Reality

Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

Brain

Follow Your Heart

Heart

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.

Patient

Thinking

Trying

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Adventure

Awkward

Behaviour

Blessing

Brain

Brother

Children

Circles

Civilization

Class

Communication

Conclusion

Congratulations

Cosy

Country

Courageous

Creativity

Criminals

Danger In Life

Drinking

Evil

Example

Expression

Eye

Failing

Failure

Fate

Feelings

Feels

Fiction

Fighting

Follow Your Heart

Goal

Guarantees

Heart

Honor

Humanity

Humans

Humility

Humor

Important

Individual

Indulge In

Knowing

Knows

Life

Life Is Good

Limits

Long

Looks

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Quotes by Alfred Adler

Alfred Adler

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

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.

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.

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.

Every pampered child becomes a hated child…. There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.

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.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

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.

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