We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. Alfred Adler More Quotes by Alfred Adler More Quotes From Alfred Adler We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited. Alfred Adler marriage real love Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life. Alfred Adler failing behaviour sides Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. Alfred Adler knowing war peace Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality. Alfred Adler neurosis medical fiction Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles. Alfred Adler boys war peace Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms. Alfred Adler language unique expression Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security. Alfred Adler honor war peace To be human means to feel inferior. Alfred Adler humanity feels mean 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 creativity real blessing The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. "Our science ... is based on common sense." Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world. Alfred Adler common-sense psychology names Man knows much more than he understands. Alfred Adler understanding knows men There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side. Alfred Adler useless sides steps There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure. Alfred Adler talent pressure What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head? Alfred Adler cosy small-rooms tea 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 men years 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 objectivity important reality 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. Alfred Adler awkward tears responsibility We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms. Alfred Adler neglect patient use My psychology belongs to everyone. Alfred Adler psychology He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone. Alfred Adler patient trying thinking
