Theodor Reik Quotes

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

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

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

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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.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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There is no call coming from those living as insistent, permanent and penetrating as the silent voice of our parents from the country of the dead.

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

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Romance fails us and so do friendships—but the relationship of parent and child remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth.

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When you want to recognize and understand what takes place in the minds of others, you have first to look into yourself.

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