The Courage to Be Happy: Discover the Power of Positive Psychology and Choose Happiness Every Day

So, while I was poring over various writings on the missionaries of the Age of Discovery, another interesting thought occurred to me: When it comes down to it, isn’t Adler’s philosophy a religion?

Yes. What is generally thought of as empathy—that is to say, agreeing with another person’s opinion and sharing their feelings—is actually sympathy. Empathy is a skill, an attitude, that one has when walking side by side with another.

in a class, you must have respect for the children. Everything starts from there.

In history, it is always the “now” that is the most correct, and whenever one authority is overthrown, a new ruler will rewrite the past again. But they will do so only for the purpose of explaining their own legitimacy. So “the past,” in the most basic sense of the word, does not exist.

Socrates, in his dialogues with the self-described wise men known as the Sophists, arrived at the following conclusion: “I (Socrates) know that my knowledge is not complete. I know my own ignorance. The Sophists, on the other hand, those would-be wise men, intend to understand ‘everything’ and know nothing of their own ignorance. In this respect—my

now. Let’s say that you are wishing you could change yourself. But changing yourself means giving up on, denying, and never again showing the face of “yourself until now,” as if you were sending it to its grave, in effect. Because once you have done that, you will be reborn as your “new self” at last. Now, regardless of how dissatisfied you may be

Why can’t you take off the mask when you are with a normal friend? YOUTH: Because if I did such a thing, the relationship would fall apart! You can talk all you want about “the courage to be disliked” and such, but there’s no such thing as a person who would actually wish to be disliked. We wear the mask to prevent needless conflict from arising, a

And someone who purports to know everything, who has stopped in their path of knowing and thinking, regardless of their belief in the existence or nonexistence of God, or even the presence or absence of their faith, is venturing into religion. That is my view on the matter.

The objective of education, in a word, is self-reliance.