Theodor Reik famous quotes

03-23-2025

In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.
-- Theodor Reik

#Best Love #Order #Persons
In our civilization men are afraid they will not be man enough, and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
-- Theodor Reik

#Marriage #Men #Civilization
The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.
-- Theodor Reik

#Love #Wise #Men
Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
-- Theodor Reik

#Good Love #Romantic Love #Neurosis
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik

#Love #Dream #Reality
Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.
-- Theodor Reik

#Said
Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men
-- Theodor Reik

#Relationship #Wise #Men
To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.
-- Theodor Reik

#Thinking #Feels #Consolation
It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour.
-- Theodor Reik

#Goal
Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.
-- Theodor Reik

#Love #Men #Want
There is need of variety in sex, but not in love.
-- Theodor Reik

#Love #Sex #Needs
The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.
-- Theodor Reik

#Selfish #Men #Thinking
The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.
-- Theodor Reik

#Self #Secret #Forget
We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.
-- Theodor Reik

#Race #Dear God #Dear
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
-- Theodor Reik

#Creativity #Artist #Wrath
He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.
-- Theodor Reik

#Love #Healing #Goal
Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth
-- Theodor Reik

#Children #Romance #Parent
Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.
-- Theodor Reik

#Women #Looks
The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
-- Theodor Reik

#Love #People #Different
No person loving or admiring himself is alone.
-- Theodor Reik

#Loneliness #Admiring #Persons
The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.
-- Theodor Reik

#Memories #Doors #Promise

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