Quotes by Adler, Alfred

"Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority."

Adler, Alfred on inferiority
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"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."

Adler, Alfred on inferiority
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"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."

Adler, Alfred on inferiority   

"To be human means to feel inferior."

Adler, Alfred on inferiority   

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

Adler, Alfred on inferiority
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"Man knows more than he understands."

Adler, Alfred on knowledge
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"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."

Adler, Alfred on love
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"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country."

Adler, Alfred on patriotism   

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

Adler, Alfred on behavior
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"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."

Adler, Alfred on caution
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"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth."

Adler, Alfred on truth   

"Man know much more than he understands."

Adler, Alfred on understanding
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