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

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

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

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

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

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

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

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the...

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the...

My psychology belongs to everyone.

My psychology belongs to everyone.

There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few...

There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few...

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses...

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses...

The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties...

The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties...

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down,...

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down,...

If the truth is there, bad writing won't hurt it !

If the truth is there, bad writing won't hurt it !

There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side :...

There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side :...

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ...

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ...

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent,...

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent,...

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal....

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal....

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

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

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime...

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime...

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the...

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the...