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Alfred Adler
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“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 (1870–1937) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a new translation of "Progress in Individual Psychology" ("Fortschritte der Individualpsychologie", 1923), a journal article by Alfred Adler, in the AAISF/ATP Archives.
“To be human means to feel inferior.”
Alfred Adler (1870–1937) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement of 1933, as quoted in Contemporary Theories and Systems in Psychology (1960) by Benjamin B. Wolman, p. 288
“Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.”
Alfred Adler (1870–1937) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: What Life Should Mean to You (1937), p. 14
“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
Alfred Adler (1870–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in: Phyllis Bottome, Alfred Adler: Apostle of Freedom (1939), ch. 5
“Man knows much more than he understands.”
Alfred Adler (1870–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in A Primer of Adlerian Psychology: The Analytic-Behavioural-Cognitive Psychology of Alfred Adler (1999) by Harold H. Mosak and Michael P. Maniacci
“Nietzsche's "will to power" and "will to seem" embrace many of our views, which again resemble in some respects the views of Féré and the older writers, according to whom the sensation of pleasure originates in a feeling of power, that of pain in a feeling of feebleness.”
Alfred Adler (1870–1937) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Neurotic Constitution (1912)