The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

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

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

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.

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

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

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.

There are thousands of degrees and variations, but it is always clearly the attitude of a person who finds his superiority in solving the complications of others.

Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.

My difficulties belong to me !

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.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

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.

Imperfect preparation gives rise to the thousand-fold forms that express physical and mental inferiority and insecurity.

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

My psychology belongs to everyone.

There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.

All neurotic symptoms have as their object the task of safeguarding the patient's self-esteem and thereby also the lifeline into which he has grown.