--- title: "Best Wilhelm Reich Quotations" description: "Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian doctor and psychoanalyst who wrote influential books such as The Impulsive Character and The Function of the Orgasm." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-wilhelm-reich-95009.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-wilhelm-reich-95009.jpg) # Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957) Psychiatrist Austria **130** quotes in **771** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Wilhelm Reich was a psychiatrist from Austria. ## Quick Facts About Wilhelm Reich Born March 24, 1897 Died November 3, 1957 Nationality Austria Profession Psychiatrist Notable works Die Sexualität im Kulturkampf: Zur sozialistischen Umstrukturierung des Menschen Known for Die Sexualität im Kulturkampf, Listen, Little Man!, Character Analysis, The Mass Psychology of Fascism Spouse Ilse Ollendorf ## About Wilhelm Reich He was part of the second generation of psychoanalysts after Sigmund Freud. In addition to his earlier works, Reich authored Character Analysis and The Mass Psychology of Fascism, both published in 1933. His ideas made him one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry. ## Quotes by Wilhelm Reich · Page 4 > [“More than economic dependency of the wife and children on the husband and father is needed to preserve the institution of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/more-than-economic-dependency-of-the-wife-and-children-on-the-husband/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) [1969](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-1969-436/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a6/wilhelm-reich-2565_1969_more-than-economic-dependency-of-the-wif_2555615.jpg) > [“Since it might appear unusual that a bio-psychiatrist should work as an expert in the realm of non-living nature, I believe it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/since-it-might-appear-unusual-that-a-bio-psychiatrist-should-work-as/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) [Atomic energy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/atomic-energy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8a/wilhelm-reich-2565_atomic-energy_since-it-might-appear-unusual-that-a-bio_859849.jpg) > [“Yet, it was precisely our failure to differentiate between work and politics, between reality and illusion; it was precisely our mistake of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/yet-it-was-precisely-our-failure-to-differentiate-between-work-and/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) [1969](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-1969-436/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab1/wilhelm-reich-2565_1969_yet-it-was-precisely-our-failure-to-diff_1931450.jpg) > [“It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/it-is-the-fate-of-great-achievements-born-from-a-way-of-life-that/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) [Celibacy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/celibacy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/479/wilhelm-reich-2565_celibacy_it-is-the-fate-of-great-achievements-bor_2004222.jpg) > [“Those who are truly alive are kindly and unsuspecting in their human relationships and consequently endangered under present conditions. They assume that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/those-who-are-truly-alive-are-kindly-and-unsuspecting-in-their-human/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) [Charity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/charity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43a/wilhelm-reich-2565_charity_those-who-are-truly-alive-are-kindly-and_2307661.jpg) > [“What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of the engine and propeller?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/what-would-you-think-of-an-engineer-who-expounded-the-art-of-flying/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d97/wilhelm-reich-2565_art_what-would-you-think-of-an-engineer-who_2819184.jpg) > [“When, then, the Social Democrat worker found himself in the economic crisis which degraded him to the status of a coolie, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/when-then-the-social-democrat-worker-found-himself-in-the-economic/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) [1931](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-1931-384/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/898/wilhelm-reich-2565_1931_when-then-the-social-democrat-worker-fou_901992.jpg) > [“As bitter as it may be, the fact remains: It is the irresponsibleness of masses of people that lies at the basis…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/as-bitter-as-it-may-be-the-fact-remains-it-is-the-irresponsibleness/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) [1969](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-1969-436/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69f/wilhelm-reich-2565_1969_as-bitter-as-it-may-be-the-fact-remains_2711846.jpg) > [“Fui acusado de ser um utópico, de querer eliminar o desprazer do mundo e defender apenas o prazer. Contudo, tenho declarado claramente…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/fui-acusado-de-ser-um-ut-pico-de-querer-eliminar-o-desprazer-do-mundo/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) [Amor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fd/wilhelm-reich-2565_amor_fui-acusado-de-ser-um-ut-pico-de-querer_2833507.jpg) > [“You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/you-differ-from-a-great-man-in-only-one-respect-the-great-man-was/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) [Emotional-plague](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/emotional-plague-55006/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4a/wilhelm-reich-2565_emotional-plague_you-differ-from-a-great-man-in-only-one_2428703.jpg) ## Wilhelm Reich by topic [Life (25)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/wilhelm-reich/) [Men (23)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/wilhelm-reich/) [Love (17)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/love/wilhelm-reich/) [Nature (13)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature/wilhelm-reich/) [Freedom (13)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/freedom/wilhelm-reich/) [Thinking (11)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/wilhelm-reich/) [Natural (11)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/natural/wilhelm-reich/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/#itemlist", "name": "Wilhelm Reich Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“More than economic dependency of the wife and children on the husband and father is needed to preserve the institution of the authoritarian family [and its support of the authoritarian state]. For the suppressed classes, this dependency is endurable only on condition that the consciousness of being a sexual being is suspended as completely as possible in women and in children. The wife must not figure as a sexual being, but solely as a child-bearer. Essentially, the idealization and deification of motherhood, which are so flagrantly at variance with the brutality with which the mothers of the toiling masses are actually treated, serve as means of preventing women from gaining a sexual consciousness, of preventing the imposed sexual repression from breaking through and of preventing sexual anxiety and sexual guilt-feelings from losing their hold. Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology. Conservative sexual reform has always made the mistake of merely making a slogan of \"the right of woman to her own body,\" and not clearly and unmistakably regarding and defending woman as a sexual being, at least as much as it regards and defends her as a mother. 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This led to the discovery of the bio-energy in the living organism, termed organismic orgone energy; and further to the discovery of the same type of a basically physical orgone energy in the atmosphere. Orgonomy is not psychiatry, but the science of biophysics of the emotions, thus also including psychiatry, and physics in the realm of basic cosmic orgone energy. It is not mysticism, but natural scientific, experimental investigation, also of mystical emotions and experiences. Orgone energy is energy before matter (not after matter, as is atomic energy). It is studied by means of Geiger-Müller Counters and other physical instruments. 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And I have stressed again and again that the main purpose of this book—which, after all, was not written merely for the fun of it—was to demonstrate these catastrophic errors in human thinking and to eliminate irrationalism from politics. It is an essential part of our social tragedy that the farmer, the industrial worker, the physician, etc., do not influence social existence solely through their social activities, but also and even predominantly through their political ideologies. For political activity hinders objective and professional activity; it splits every profession into inimical ideologic groups; creates a dichotomy in the body of industrial workers; limits the activity of the medical profession and harms the patients. In short, it is precisely political activity that prevents the realization of that which it pretends to fight for: peace, work, security, international cooperation, free objective speech, freedom of religion, etc.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Wilhelm Reich" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/yet-it-was-precisely-our-failure-to-differentiate-between-work-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab1/wilhelm-reich-2565_1969_yet-it-was-precisely-our-failure-to-diff_1931450.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab1/wilhelm-reich-2565_1969_yet-it-was-precisely-our-failure-to-diff_1931450.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab1/wilhelm-reich-2565_1969_yet-it-was-precisely-our-failure-to-diff_1931450.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Yet, it was precisely our failure to differentiate between work and politics, between reality and illusion…” — Wilhelm Reich", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up by you and excreted in the form of shit. For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished their teachings; time and again you have been captivated by their weakest points, taken not the great truth, but some trifling error as your guiding principal. This, little man, is what you have done with Christianity, with the doctrine of sovereign people, with socialism, with everything you touch. Why, you ask, do you do this? I don't believe you really want an answer. When you hear the truth you'll cry bloody murder, or commit it. … You had your choice between soaring to superhuman heights with Nietzsche and sinking into subhuman depths with Hitler. You shouted Heil! Heil! and chose the subhuman. You had the choice between Lenin's truly democratic constitution and Stalin's dictatorship. You chose Stalin's dictatorship. You had your choice between Freud's elucidation of the sexual core of your psychic disorders and his theory of cultural adaptation. You dropped the theory of sexuality and chose his theory of cultural adaptation, which left you hanging in mid-air. You had your choice between Jesus and his majestic simplicity and Paul with his celibacy for priests and life-long compulsory marriage for yourself. You chose the celibacy and compulsory marriage and forgot the simplicity of Jesus' mother, who bore her child for love and love alone. You had your choice between Marx's insight into the productivity of your living labor power, which alone creates the value of commodities and the idea of the state. You forgot the living energy of your labor and chose the idea of the state. In the French Revolution, you had your choice between the cruel Robespierre and the great Danton. You chose cruelty and sent greatness and goodness to the guillotine. In Germany you had your choice between Goring and Himmler on the one hand and Liebknecht, Landau, and Muhsam on the other. You made Himmler your police chief and murdered your great friends. You had your choice between Julius Streicher and Walter Rathenau. You murdered Rathenau. You had your choice between Lodge and Wilson. You murdered Wilson. You had your choice between the cruel Inquisition and Galileo's truth. You tortured and humiliated the great Galileo, from whose inventions you are still benefiting, and now, in the twentieth century, you have brought the methods of the Inquisition to a new flowering. … Every one of your acts of smallness and meanness throws light on the boundless wretchedness of the human animal. 'Why so tragic?' you ask. 'Do you feel responsible for all evil?' With remarks like that you condemn yourself. If, little man among millions, you were to shoulder the barest fraction of your responsibility, the world would be a very different place. 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They assume that others think and act generously, kindly and helpfully, in accordance with the laws of life. This natural attitude, fundamental to healthy children as well as primitive man, inevitably represents a great danger in the struggle for a rational way of life as long as the emotional plague subsists, because the plague-ridden impute their own manner of thinking and acting to their fellow men. A kindly man believes that all men are kindly, while one infected with the plague believes that all men lie and cheat and are hungry for power. In such a situation, the living are at an obvious disadvantage. When they give to the plague-ridden they are sucked dry, then ridiculed or betrayed.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Wilhelm Reich" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/those-who-are-truly-alive-are-kindly-and-unsuspecting-in-their-human/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43a/wilhelm-reich-2565_charity_those-who-are-truly-alive-are-kindly-and_2307661.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43a/wilhelm-reich-2565_charity_those-who-are-truly-alive-are-kindly-and_2307661.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43a/wilhelm-reich-2565_charity_those-who-are-truly-alive-are-kindly-and_2307661.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Those who are truly alive are kindly and unsuspecting in their human relationships and consequently…” — Wilhelm Reich", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of the engine and propeller? That's what you do, you engineer of the human soul. Just that. You're a coward. You want the raisins out of my cake but you don't want the thorns of my roses. Haven't you too, little psychiatrist, been cracking silly jokes about me? Haven't you ridiculed me as \"the prophet of bigger and better orgasms\"? Have you never heard the whimpering of a young wife whose body has been desecrated by an impotent husband? Or the anguished cry of an adolescent bursting with unfulfilled love? Does your security still mean more to you than your patient? How long will you go on valuing your respectability above your medical mission? How long will you refuse to see that your pussyfooting procrastination is costing millions their lives?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Wilhelm Reich" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/what-would-you-think-of-an-engineer-who-expounded-the-art-of-flying/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d97/wilhelm-reich-2565_art_what-would-you-think-of-an-engineer-who_2819184.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d97/wilhelm-reich-2565_art_what-would-you-think-of-an-engineer-who_2819184.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d97/wilhelm-reich-2565_art_what-would-you-think-of-an-engineer-who_2819184.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of the…” — Wilhelm Reich", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“When, then, the Social Democrat worker found himself in the economic crisis which degraded him to the status of a coolie, the development of his revolutionary sentiments was severely retarded by the conservative structuralization that had been taking shape in him for decades. Either he remained in the camp of the Social Democrats, notwithstanding his criticism and rejection of their policies, or he went over to the NSDAP [Nazi party] in search of a better replacement. Irresolute and indecisive, owing to the deep contradiction between revolutionary and conservative sentiments, disappointed by his own leadership, he followed the line of least resistance. Whether he would give up his conservative tendencies and arrive at a complete consciousness of his actual responsibility in the production process, i.e., at a revolutionary consciousness, depended solely on the correct or incorrect leadership of the revolutionary party. Thus the communist assertion that it was the Social Democrat policies that put fascism in the saddle was correct from a psychological viewpoint. Disappointment in Social Democracy, accompanied by the contradiction between wretchedness and conservative thinking, must lead to fascism if there are no revolutionary organizations. 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It could have developed in any country or nation. It is not a character trait that is confined specifically to the Germans or Italians. It is manifest in every single individual of the world. The Austrian saying \"Da kann man halt nix machen\" expresses this fact just as the American saying \"Let George do it.\" That this situation was brought about by a social development which goes back thousands of years does not alter the fact itself. It is man himself who is responsible and not \"historical developments.\" It was the shifting of the responsibility from living man to \"historical developments\" that caused the downfall of the socialist freedom movements. However, the events of the past twenty years demand the responsibility of the working masses of people. If we take \"freedom\" to mean first and foremost the responsibility of each individual to shape personal, occupational, and social existence in a rational way, then it can be said that there is no greater fear than the fear of the creation of general freedom. Unless this basic problem is given complete priority and solved, there will never be a freedom capable of lasting more than one or two generations.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Wilhelm Reich" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/as-bitter-as-it-may-be-the-fact-remains-it-is-the-irresponsibleness/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69f/wilhelm-reich-2565_1969_as-bitter-as-it-may-be-the-fact-remains_2711846.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69f/wilhelm-reich-2565_1969_as-bitter-as-it-may-be-the-fact-remains_2711846.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69f/wilhelm-reich-2565_1969_as-bitter-as-it-may-be-the-fact-remains_2711846.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“As bitter as it may be, the fact remains: It is the irresponsibleness of masses of people that lies at the…” — Wilhelm Reich", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Fui acusado de ser um utópico, de querer eliminar o desprazer do mundo e defender apenas o prazer. Contudo, tenho declarado claramente que a educação tradicional torna as pessoas incapazes para o prazer encouraçando-as contra o desprazer. Prazer e alegria de viver são inconcebíveis sem luta, experiências dolorosas e embates desagradáveis consigo mesmo. A saúde psíquica não se caracteriza pela teoria do nirvana dos iogues e dos budistas, nem pela hedonismo dos epicuristas, nem pela renúncia monástica; caracteriza-se, isso sim, pela alternância entre a luta desprazerosa e a felicidade, o erro e a verdade, o desvio e a correção da rota, a raiva racional e o amor racional; em suma, estar plenamente vivo em todas as situações da vida. A capacidade de suportar o desprazer e a dor sem se tornar amargurado e sem se refugiar na rigidez, anda de mãos dadas com a capacidade de aceitar a felicidade e dar amor.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Wilhelm Reich" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/fui-acusado-de-ser-um-ut-pico-de-querer-eliminar-o-desprazer-do-mundo/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fd/wilhelm-reich-2565_amor_fui-acusado-de-ser-um-ut-pico-de-querer_2833507.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fd/wilhelm-reich-2565_amor_fui-acusado-de-ser-um-ut-pico-de-querer_2833507.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fd/wilhelm-reich-2565_amor_fui-acusado-de-ser-um-ut-pico-de-querer_2833507.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Fui acusado de ser um utópico, de querer eliminar o desprazer do mundo e defender apenas o prazer. 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