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Top 20 Theodor Reik Quotes (2025 Update)

Theodor Reik Quote: “The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.”

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

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Theodor Reik Quote: “Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.”

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

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Theodor Reik Quote: “In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.”

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

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Theodor Reik Quote: “It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour.”

4. “It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour.”

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Theodor Reik Quote: “Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.”

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

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

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

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Theodor Reik Quote: “To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.”

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

— Theodor Reik

Theodor Reik Quote: “Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.”

8. “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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Theodor Reik Quote: “No person loving or admiring himself is alone.”

9. “No person loving or admiring himself is alone.”

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Theodor Reik Quote: “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.”

10. “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

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Theodor Reik Quote: “Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men.”

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

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Theodor Reik Quote: “The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.”

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

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Theodor Reik Quote: “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.”

13. “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

Theodor Reik Quote: “In our civilization men are afraid they will not be man enough, and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.”

14. “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

Theodor Reik Quote: “Anybody possessing analytical knowledge recognizes the fact that the world is full of actions performed by people exclusively to their detriment and without perceptible advantage, although their eyes were open.”

15. “Anybody possessing analytical knowledge recognizes the fact that the world is full of actions performed by people exclusively to their detriment and without perceptible advantage, although their eyes were open.”

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Theodor Reik Quote: “Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.”

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

— Theodor Reik

Theodor Reik Quote: “The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.”

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

— Theodor Reik

Theodor Reik Quote: “It was strange to find that love does not spring from abundance and richness of the ego, but is a way out of inner distress and poverty. We were surprised to discover that our first love is not directed either to another person or to ourselves, but to an imaginary ideal ego, to an image of ourselves as we would like to be. There are stranger discoveries awaiting us the more deeply we grope in the dark and the further we intrude into the secret places of the human heart.”

18. “It was strange to find that love does not spring from abundance and richness of the ego, but is a way out of inner distress and poverty. We were surprised to discover that our first love is not directed either to another person or to ourselves, but to an imaginary ideal ego, to an image of ourselves as we would like to be. There are stranger discoveries awaiting us the more deeply we grope in the dark and the further we intrude into the secret places of the human heart.”

— Theodor Reik

Theodor Reik Quote: “Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.”

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

— Theodor Reik

Theodor Reik Quote: “Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.”

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

— Theodor Reik

Theodor Reik Quote: “The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.”

21. “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

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