Alfred Adler Quotes

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Man knows much more than he understands.

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.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

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.

To be human means to feel inferior.