Quotes by Alfred Adler - Page 2

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 / Psychotherapist
Morning
Broken
Real
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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 / Psychotherapist
Children
Circles
Two
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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.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Example
Indulge In
Self
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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 / Psychotherapist
Art
Education
Experience
Inspirational
Motivational
Educator
Seeking
Bring
Employ
Potential
Pupil
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Teacher
Fighting
Principles
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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 / Psychotherapist
Agitation
Conquest
Greater
Inferiority
Powerful
Violent
Experienced
Feeling
Urge
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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.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Fate
Individual
Inevitability
Long
Peculiar
Suffering
Understand
Accordance
Acts
Suffers
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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.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Patient
Thinking
Trying
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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.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Goal
Human Soul
Soul
Understanding
Brings
Human Being
Proper
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What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
May
Real
Risk
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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
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Failure
Children
Suicide
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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.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Experience
Success
Failure
Congratulations
Shock
Trauma
Just
Make
Them
Success Experience Failure
Cause
Experiences
No Experience
Purposes
So-Called
Suffer
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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.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Mean
Tears
Water
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If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Affliction
Firsts
Would Be
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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.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Attitude
Depreciate
Neurotic
Real
Real Person
Speak
Thumbs
Thumbs Down
Since
Attitudes
Effective
Ideal
Measure
Wishes
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The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Life
Work
Math
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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 / Psychotherapist
Investigation
Neurotic
Opponents
Patient
Style
Suffering
Life Family Always
Condition
Member
Note
Opponent
Suffers
Suspect
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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.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Hard
People
Point Of View
Remember
Simple
Superiority
Views
Assert
Deal
Him
Striving
Point
Rule
View
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It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Science
Humility
Order
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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.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Eye
Feelings
Heart
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Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Expression
Language
Unique
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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.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Life
Feelings
Struggle
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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.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Love
Men
Breathing
Gait
Hundred
Law
Mankind
Natural
Neighbor
Years
Love Man Must
Few
Himself
Hundred Years
Perish
Upright
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In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him; he is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Fiction
Looks
Way
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More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Important
Objectivity
Reality
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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 / Psychotherapist
Believe
Done
Long
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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.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Limits
Self
Would Be
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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 / Psychotherapist
Awkward
Cradle
Patient
Resistance
Responsibility
Tears
Therapeutic
Vehement
Attempt
Cure
Freedom From
Reckon
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It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Men
Fellow Man
Spring
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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.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Death
Blessing
Creative
Creativity
Hamper
Humanity
Progress
Real
Stimulus
Sufficient
Young
Lived
Could
Discourage
Ever
Lack
Themselves
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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
God
Brilliant
Cosmos
Fate
Human Soul
Manifestation
Stars
Complete
Master
Eternally
Fates
Speaks
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Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their research harms no one, but it is of no importance at all. A mathematician is great or he is nothing.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Science
Teacher
Math
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To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Agitation
Conquest
Emotional
Greater
Inferiority
Mean
Powerful
Violent
Human
Experienced
Feeling
Means
Towards
Human Being
Possess
Urge
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In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Civilization
Country
People
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In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Friendship
Science
Book
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Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Medical
Fiction
Neurosis
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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.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Love
Marriage
Real
Taken
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We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them; and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Degrees
Giving
Self
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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.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Courageous
Guarantees
Risk
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The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Feelings
Goal
Psychology
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The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. "Our science ... is based on common sense." Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Common Sense
Names
Psychology
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An educator's most important task, one might say his holy duty, is to see to it that no child is discouraged at school, and that a child who enters school already discouraged regains his self-confidence through his school and his teacher. This goes hand in hand with the vocation of the educator, for education is possible only with children who look hopefully and joyfully upon the future.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Teacher
Children
School
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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!
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Inspiring
Mistake
Swim
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The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to find his way. We proceed much the same when we divide the earth by meridians and parallels, for only thus do we obtain fixed points which we can bring into a relationship with one another.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Children
Mind
Order
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There is no thing as a man who does not create mathematics and yet is a fine mathematics teacher. Textbooks, course material-these do not approach in importance the communication of what mathematics is really about, of where it is going, and of where it currently stands with respect to the specific branch of it being taught. What really matters is the communication of the spirit of mathematics. It is a spirit that is active rather than contemplative-a spirit of disciplined search for adventures of the intellect. Only as adventurer can really tell of adventures.
Alfred Adler / Psychotherapist
Communication
Teacher
Adventure
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