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
An educator's most important task, one might say his holy duty, is to see to it that no child is discouraged at school, and that a child who enters school already discouraged regains his self-confidence through his school and his teacher. This goes hand in hand with the vocation of the educator, for education is possible only with children who look hopefully and joyfully upon the future.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.
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.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
Everything can always be different!
seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security...
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.
It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others.
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.