142 Quotes by Alfred Adler

It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?

All failures are so because they lack social interest.

Every neurotic is partly in the right.

If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.

The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him.

It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.

To be human means to feel inferior.

Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.