1870-1937, Austrian Psychiatrist
Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
Alfred Adler – [Inferiority]
If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
Alfred Adler – [Truth]
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Alfred Adler – [Patriotism]
Man know much more than he understands.
Alfred Adler – [Understanding]
Man knows more than he understands.
Alfred Adler – [Knowledge]
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler – [Caution]
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.
Alfred Adler – [Inferiority]
The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler – [Inferiority]
The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.
Alfred Adler – [Behavior]
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.
Alfred Adler – [Truth]
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.
Alfred Adler – [Love]
To be human means to feel inferior.
Alfred Adler – [Inferiority]
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
Alfred Adler – [Inferiority]