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. Alfred Adler More Quotes by Alfred Adler More Quotes From Alfred Adler My difficulties belong to me! Alfred Adler difficulty All failures are so because they lack social interest. Alfred Adler interest social 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. Alfred Adler thumbs-down real attitude 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 understanding soul goal Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler fighting principles teacher 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. Alfred Adler unity style goal War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. Alfred Adler brother war peace It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all. Alfred Adler done long believe 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. Alfred Adler indulge-in example self 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. Alfred Adler circles two children There is no thing as a man who does not create mathematics and yet is a fine mathematics teacher. Textbooks, course material-these do not approach in importance the communication of what mathematics is really about, of where it is going, and of where it currently stands with respect to the specific branch of it being taught. What really matters is the communication of the spirit of mathematics. It is a spirit that is active rather than contemplative-a spirit of disciplined search for adventures of the intellect. Only as adventurer can really tell of adventures. Alfred Adler communication teacher adventure 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 conclusion criminals children Every neurotic is partly in the right. Alfred Adler neurotic 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. Alfred Adler tears water mean 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. Alfred Adler fate suffering long In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him; he is nailed to the cross of his fiction. Alfred Adler looks way fiction In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family. Alfred Adler opponents style suffering The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him. Alfred Adler limits self would-be To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. Alfred Adler ubuntu war peace If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change. Alfred Adler affliction would-be firsts
