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.
From Alfred Adler
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.
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
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.
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.
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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