Skip to content

Alfred Adler

7 February 1870-28 May 1937

Definition.com

Aggression is the most general human tendency to overcome feelings of inferiority through self-assertion and is a necessity of life.

Definition.com

Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. It is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse.

Definition.com

Courage is varied. There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Definition.com

Courage is the willingness to risk failure... as such, the only danger in life is to take too many precautions.

Definition.com

Crying is a kind of water power which can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.

Definition.com

Death is a great blessing for there could be no real progress without it. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

Definition.com

Death is that without which there could be no real progress, as living forever would rob the youth of the stimulus to be creative.

Definition.com

Depression is curable if every day one begins the first thing in the morning to consider how they will bring a real joy to someone else.

Definition.com

Experience is not determinative of who we are... we are self-determined by the meaning that we ascribe to situations and give to our experiences.

Definition.com

Experience is not something we suffer. It is neither a cause neither of success nor failure. We make out of experience just what suits our purposes.

Definition.com

Experience is never to be taken as the basis for our future life. To do so is to almost certainly be misguided for meanings are not determined by situations, rather we determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.

Definition.com

A Fact is unable to influence us. Rather, we are influenced by our interpretation of the facts.

Definition.com

Fate is the inevitability felt in actions and suffering by one who does not understand that every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology.