Alfred Adler quotes and words of wisdom

"A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous."
Found in the topic Truth.

"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."
Found in the topic Children.

"Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority."
Found in the topic Inferior.

"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."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"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."
Found in the topic Love.

"The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful."
Found in the topic Achievement.

"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."
Found in the topic Mathematics.

"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country."
Found in the topic Patriotism.

"It is always easier to fight for one?s principles than to live up to them."
Found in the topic Morality.

"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."
Found in the topic Cause.

"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."
Found in the topic Immorality.

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