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34 quotes by Alfred Adler

Part of a series of articles on Psychoanalysis Concepts Psychosexual development Psychosocial development (Erikson) Unconscious Preconscious Consciousness Psychic apparatus Id, ego and super-ego Libido Drive Transference Countertransference Ego defenses Resistance Projection Denial Dreamwork Important figures Alfred Adler Michael Balint Wilfred Bion Josef Breuer Nancy Chodorow Max Eitingon Erik Erikson Ronald Fairbairn Paul Federn Otto Fenichel...
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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

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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... →

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The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

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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... →

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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.

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There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

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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... →

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Man knows much more than he understands.

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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... →

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We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.

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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... →

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We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

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