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.

Alfred Adler

Alfred Adler

Agitation Been Being Conquest Constantly Emotional Experienced Feeling Greater Human Human Being Inferiority Means More Own Possess Powerful Towards Urge Violent Which

Related Quotes

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.

— Alfred Adler

AgitationBeenConquest

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and un-fulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.

— Alfred Adler

Behind everyone who behaves as if he were superior to others, we can suspect a feeling of inferiority which calls for very special efforts of concealment. It is as if a man feared that he was too small and walked on his toes to make himself seem tall

— Alfred Adler

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority

— Alfred Adler

InferiorityTemper

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

— James Joyce

AbhorrentBeingChurch