Austrian Psychologist Quotations

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

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

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.

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

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

I believe that the ego is incapable of splitting the object - internal and external - without a corresponding splitting taking place within the ego.

There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it.

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.