Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler was an Austrian medical doctor and psychologist.
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- The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.
- From a new translation of "Progress in Individual Psychology," [1923] a journal article by Alfred Adler, in the AAISF/ATP Archives.
- To be human means to feel inferior.
- Statement of 1933, as quoted in Contemporary Theories and Systems in Psychology (1960) by Benjamin B. Wolman, p. 288
- Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
- What Life Should Mean to You (1937), p. 14
- It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
- Quoted in: Phyllis Bottome, Alfred Adler: Apostle of Freedom (1939), ch. 5
- Man knows much more than he understands.
- As quoted in A Primer of Adlerian Psychology : The Analytic-Behavioural-Cognitive Psychology of Alfred Adler (1999) by Harold H. Mosak and Michael P. Maniacci
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- It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
- Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
- The chief danger in life is taking too many precautions.
- Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority
- Man knows much more than he understands
- My difficulties belong to me!