Alfred Adler
» Behavior » “The test of one’s behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one’s work, relationship to sex.”
» Caution » “The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”
» Inferiority » “We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.”
» Inferiority » “Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.”
» Inferiority » “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.”
» Inferiority » “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.”
» Inferiority » “To be human means to feel inferior.”
» Knowledge » “Man knows more than he understands.”
» Love » “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.”
» Patriotism » “It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.”
» Truth » “The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.”
» Truth » “If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.”
» Understanding » “Man know much more than he understands.”
