Alfred Adler

Country Unknown
Born Monday, 30 November -0001
Category
Quotes 76
Psychiatrist
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“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.” Uncategorized
Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that. Uncategorized
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference Uncategorized
We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms. Uncategorized
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. Uncategorized
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. Uncategorized
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. Uncategorized
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. Uncategorized
Man knows much more than he understands. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. Uncategorized
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. Uncategorized
The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized