It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they...

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that...

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

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...

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of...

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

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 only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.

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...

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.