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Alfred Adler

b: Vienna, Austria, Feb 7, 1870

d: Aberdeen, Scotland, May 28, 1937

Austrian. Author. Psychoanalyst. Rebelled against Freud's teachings, advocated individual psychology, 1907; originated phrase "inferiority complex".

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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

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.

Dreams reflect current and future unsolved problems and rehearse their possible solutions.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

Life happens at the level of events, not words.

Man know much more than he understands.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

The Don Juans among men and the light-o'-loves among women are afraid of marriage.

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 greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

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.

They talk most who have the least to say.

To be human means to feel inferior.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Trust only movement.Life happens at the level of events, not of words.Trust movement.-

Violence as a way of gaining power...is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security...

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.

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.