Alfred Adler Quotes

‘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

‘It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.’ – 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.’ – Alfred Adler

‘There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.’ – Alfred Adler

‘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

‘Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.’ – Alfred Adler

‘Man knows much more than he understands.’ – Alfred Adler

‘A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.’ – Alfred Adler

‘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.’ – Alfred Adler