Theodor Reik Quotes

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

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

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

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

No person loving or admiring himself is alone.

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.

It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour.

Work and love - these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough and women are afraid they might be considered only women.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women and even the most foolish women are wise about men.

In our civilization men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Work and love-these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.