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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. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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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. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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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. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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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. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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Man knows much more than he understands. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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

— Alfred Adler

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The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. ↗

— Freda Adler

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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. ↗

— Freda Adler

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