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Alfred Adler (February 7, 1870 - May 28, 1937) was an Austrian psychologist and neurologist, one of the founders of individual psychology. Adler's theory emphasizes the social and cultural factors of individual psychology, believing that individual behavior is influenced by their social environment and family background.

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Famous Alfred Adler Quotes

“To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.”

Feels Heart Feelings Seems Eye Social Ears Definitions

Book:The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Journal articles : 1927-1931

Source: The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Journal articles : 1927-1931

“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.”

States Feelings Individual Goal Psychology Movement Theory Higher Stronger Strive Psychological Significance Yearning Compensation Inferiority Personal Power

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“Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.”

Feelings Reality Expression Sensitivity Inferiority Exaggerated Inferiority Complex

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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.”

Humans Mean Has Beens Feelings Human Beings Powerful Greater Emotional Presses Violent Urges Conquest Inferiority Agitation Being Mean

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“seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.”

Heart Feelings Eye Seeing Listening Empathy Ears

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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.”

Life Feelings Humanity Individual Struggle Inferiority Life Struggle Inferiority Complex Incompleteness Unfulfillment

Author:Alfred Adler