"Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children."
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"The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to find his way. We proceed much the same when we divide the earth by meridians and parallels, for only thus do we obtain fixed points which we can bring into a relationship with one another."
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"The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity."
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"Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you."
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"It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others."
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"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth."
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"seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another."
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"The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful."
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"No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes."
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"There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow."
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"Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority."
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"We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited."
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"Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security."
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"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."
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"Everything can always be different!"
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"A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous."
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"To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation."
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"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."
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"The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority."
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"The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power."
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