We can comprehend every single life phenomenon, as if the past, the present, and the future together with a superordinate, guiding idea were present in it in traces.
You cannot divide the individual, man is a whole human being.
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
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.
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
My difficulties belong to me
The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
To be human means to feel inferior.
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.
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
If the truth is there, bad writing won't hurt it
The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.
We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait but if he does not learn it he must perish.
The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him.
My passions are the grapes that I tread out for mankind.
I have taken forty years to make my psychology simple. I might say all neurosis is vanity - but this also might not be understood.
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