142 Quotes by Alfred Adler

You cannot divide the individual, man is a whole human being.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

Every thing may be different, even what I say to you now may be different !

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

Defiant individuals will always persecute others, yet will always consider themselves persecuted.

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

Imperfect preparation gives rise to the thousand-fold forms that express physical and mental inferiority and insecurity.

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.

I have taken forty years to make my psychology simple. I might say all neurosis is vanity - but this also might not be understood.