“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”
– Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler
Austrian medical doctor
Alfred W. Adler was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. Wikipedia
Born: February 7, 1870, Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, Vienna, Austria
Died: May 28, 1937, Aberdeen
Spouse(s): Raissa Epstein
Known for: Individual psychology
Quotes
- It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
- Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
- The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.
More Quotes
“The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.” —
“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.”
“War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Defiant individuals will always persecute others, yet will always consider themselves persecuted.”
“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.”
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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”
“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”
“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!”
“The only normal people are the one’s you don’t know very well.”
“My difficulties belong to me !”
“Let yourself be guided in your pedagogic interventions especially by the observations you have made on the results of your former interventions.”
“Every thing may be different, even what I say to you now may be different !”
“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”
“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.”
“Life happens at the level of events, not words”
“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 from among such individuals that all human failures spring.”
“Imperfect preparation gives rise to the thousand-fold forms that express physical and mental inferiority and insecurity.”
“The test of one’s behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one’s work, relationship to sex.”
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