"The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex."
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"Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life."
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"God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection."
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"We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority."
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"War is organized murder and torture against our brothers."
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"There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side."
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"We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms."
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"Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms."
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"Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality."
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"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."
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"Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles."
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"Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit."
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"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."
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"The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. "Our science ... is based on common sense." Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world."
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"Man knows much more than he understands."
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"To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations."
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"He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone."
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"The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal."
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"Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance."
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"What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?"
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