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Letter "A" » Alfred Adler Quotes
«Behind everyone who behaves as if he were superior to others, we can suspect a feeling of inferiority which calls for very special efforts of concealment. It is as if a man feared that he was too small and walked on his toes to make himself seem tall»
«We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.»
«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.»
«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 fin»
Author: Alfred Adler
| About:
Mankind,
Mind
| Keywords:
assumptions, capture, chaotic, fictions, fin, fins, flux, incomprehensible, scheme, serving, unreal, urge
«The human soul, as a part of the movement of life, is endowed with the ability to participate in the uplift, elevation, perfection, and completion.»
Author: Alfred Adler
| Keywords:
completion, elevation, endowed, human soul, participate, The Movement, uplift
«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.»
Author: Alfred Adler
| About:
Action,
Suffering
| Keywords:
accordance, inevitability, peculiar, suffers, teleology
«The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.»
«All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest»
Author: Alfred Adler
| About:
Failure,
Prostitution
| Keywords:
criminals, drunkards, lacking, perverts, prostitutes, psychotic, psychotics, suicides
«Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not any hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient Stimulus to be creative.»
Author: Alfred Adler
| About:
Blessings,
Death and dying,
Mankind,
Progress
| Keywords:
discourage, hamper, hampered, hampering, hampers
«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.»
Author: Alfred Adler
| Keywords:
disposition, evaluation, furthermore, innate, objective, relation to, subjective
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