Quotes by Alfred Adler

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

— Alfred Adler

Life

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

Success

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

Wisdom

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

— Alfred Adler

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Alfred Adler

Wisdom

Man knows much more than he understands.

— Alfred Adler

Wisdom

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

— Alfred Adler

Wisdom

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

— Alfred Adler

Wisdom

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

Success

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

Wisdom

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

Courage

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

Life

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

— Alfred Adler

Wisdom

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

— Alfred Adler

Wisdom

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

— Alfred Adler

Wisdom

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

— Alfred Adler

Wisdom

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

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

— Alfred Adler

Wisdom

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

— Alfred Adler

Wisdom

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

— Alfred Adler

Wisdom

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

— Alfred Adler

Truth

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

Success

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

— Alfred Adler

Truth