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Alfred Adler · 1927
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What this book knows
Human character is not fixed fate but a socially shaped style of life that reason and courage can revise.
self-and-identity
As adults we are still applying the prejudices and fallacies of our childhood as though they were sacred laws.
VLA-D498EBF5-RC-105The degree to which social feeling has developed in any individual is the only universally valid criterion of human values.
VLA-D498EBF5-RC-106mind-and-cognition
No evaluation of character should be made out of context; wrenching isolated phenomena from life leads to wrong conclusions.
VLA-D498EBF5-RC-108Foresight is linked with empathy, extraordinarily well developed in human beings; we must learn to inhabit another's position.
VLA-D498EBF5-RC-042ambition-and-status
Vain people make every attempt to camouflage overt signs of their vanity — apparent modesty is itself a form of vanity.
VLA-D498EBF5-RC-123Unbridled vanity leads automatically to the destruction of the personality, as Anderson's fairy tale shows in drastic form.
VLA-D498EBF5-RC-136Illuminates
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