Author of quotes: Alfred Adler. Page 1

Depressed and sick people are always the center of attention in the family.
Thus, the complex of inferiority is the source of their power. They constantly complain that they feel weak, lose weight, etc., but despite this, they are stronger than all the others. They suppress healthy people - a fact that shouldn't surprise us, since in our culture the disease may give a certain strength and power. (And if we were wondering who the strongest people in our culture, it would be logical to answer the babies. Babies rule themselves while remaining timeless.)

It is quite another thing - jealousy, which is much more difficult and dangerous to install, because in any situation may not benefit the individual. Moreover, jealousy is the result of strong and deep feelings of inferiority. Usually, jealous people are not afraid to hold your partner, and at the very moment when he wants to control it and influence it, the various manifestations of jealousy, he only betrays his weakness.
Exploring the prototype of such a person, it is possible to detect a sense of loss or deprivation. Whenever faced with a jealous man, it is helpful to look to his past and to check whether we are dealing with a person previously rejected by living in constant anticipation of what is to happen again.

People confident in their ability to overcome their difficulties, don't be impatient. Arrogance, impatience, pugnacity - the symptoms of severe feelings of inferiority in children.

The desire from the bottom up is inexhaustible. Whatever the reason may thinking philosophers and psychologists about self-preservation, the pleasure principle, the equalization - all this is nothing more than a distant representation of a great movement upwards.

The goal as such - it is a function where as if a person versed in the global chaos, in the chaos of his own existence. It is the illusion of understanding natural and social existence.

The truth is a kind of "infinite task" that always beckons, but remains forever unattainable.

The purpose of anger - quick violent destruction of any obstacle.

A considerable number of phenomena appear to us as a kind of bad joke.

Under the self-isolation of the person it is easy to discover the Foundation of ambition and vanity.

Every person is a Creator because he creates something from various congenital factors and opportunities.

Because of its isolated way of life that we lead, few of us are well acquainted with human nature.

To be human means to have a sense of inferiority.

In our civilization, show little respect for the person who always wants to be the center of attention without doing anything to deserve it.

Does the person your goal is to become a coachman, a doctor, a philanderer, a friend, a tyrant, he always sees this as the highest realization and assertion of its essence.