Alfred Adler Quotes

People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.

I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.

The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or political facts provide the real and sufficient explanation of sociological questions. On the other hand, the psychoanalyst must emphasize that the subject of sociology, society, in reality consists of individuals, and that it is these human beings, rather than abstract society as such, whose actions, thoughts, and feelings are the object of sociological research.

Each man has some part to play.

Trust has shifted from institutions to individuals.

The historic idea that the devil tempts men had this remarkable effect, it produced the man of iron who fought; the modern idea of blaming his heredity or his circumstances produces the man who gives in at once.

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.

Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

The only person who can put you out of business, in the early days, is yourself.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

In old age the secret springs of human nature are apt to come out.

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.

Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.

...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset.

A tourist is an ugly human being.

But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

It is the responsibility of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong.

If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.

The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.