3 December 2020 Alfred Adler 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.
3 December 2020 Alfred Adler No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma – but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
3 December 2020 Alfred Adler The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Alfred Adler The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
3 December 2020 Alfred Adler 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.
3 December 2020 Alfred Adler To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
3 December 2020 Alfred Adler The test of one’s behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
3 December 2020 Alfred Adler Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
3 December 2020 Alfred Adler 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.
3 December 2020 Alfred Adler War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
3 December 2020 Alfred Adler God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
