Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler
Alfred W. Adlerwas an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. His emphasis on the importance of feelings of inferiority—the inferiority complex—is recognized as an isolating element which plays a key role in personality development. Alfred Adler considered human beings as an individual whole, therefore he called his psychology "Individual Psychology"...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 February 1880
CountryAustria
There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.
The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others.
Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security...
Everything can always be different!
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.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
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.
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.