Alfred Adler Quotes about Feelings

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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.

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.

Alfred Adler

Heart, Eye, Feelings

Alfred Adler (2002). “The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Journal articles : 1927-1931”, p.64, Alfred Adler Institute

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

Alfred Adler

Reality, Expression, Feelings

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.

Alfred Adler

Life, Struggle, Feelings

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.

Alfred Adler

Goal, Psychology, Feelings

From a new translation of "Progress in Individual Psychology" by Alfred Adler, in the AAISF/ATP Archives, 1923.