Alfred Adler Quotes

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

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

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We live upon the contributions of our ancestors. Nature is a good scavenger. She soon gets rid of her rubbish.

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The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared but only men of character are trusted.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

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In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is.

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Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

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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.

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It is always easier to fight for ones principles than to live up to them.

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

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Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

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Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their research harms no one, but it is of no importance at all. A mathematician is great or he is nothing.

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We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

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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.

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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.

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Man knows much more than he understands.

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