Alfred Adler Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.”

“The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.”

“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”

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