Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Theodor Reik

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American psychologist Theodor Reik.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Theodor Reik was a psychoanalyst who trained as one of Freud's first students in Vienna, Austria, and was a pioneer of lay analysis in the United States.

American - Psychologist | May 12, 1888 - December 31, 1969

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

Theodor Reik

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

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

Theodor Reik

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

Theodor Reik

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

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

Theodor Reik

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

Theodor Reik

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

Theodor Reik

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

Theodor Reik

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

Theodor Reik

There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not inself-seeking but in self-forgetting.

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

Theodor Reik

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

Theodor Reik

There is need of variety in sex, but not in love.

Theodor Reik

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

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

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

Theodor Reik

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

Theodor Reik