Civilization Men Quotes by Theodor Reik

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Theodor Reik has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.
• Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible…
• Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men
• Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.
• He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to…
• The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.
• In our civilization men are afraid they will not be man enough, and women are afraid that they might be considered only…
• Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
• We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

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