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Famous Alfred Adler Quotes

“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.”

Alfred Adler

“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”

Alfred Adler

“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”

Alfred Adler

“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”

Alfred Adler

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

Alfred Adler

Quoted in: Phyllis Bottome, Alfred Adler: Apostle of Freedom (1939), ch. 5
Problems of Neurosis: A Book of Case Histories (1929)

“It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring.”

Alfred Adler

Source: What Life Could Mean to You

Alfred Adler Quotes about feelings

“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.”

Alfred Adler

From a new translation of "Progress in Individual Psychology" ("Fortschritte der Individualpsychologie", 1923), a journal article by Alfred Adler, in the AAISF/ATP Archives.

“seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.”

Alfred Adler

“To be human means to feel inferior.”

Alfred Adler

Statement of 1933, as quoted in Contemporary Theories and Systems in Psychology (1960) by Benjamin B. Wolman, p. 288