"The small share of happiness attainable by man……" — Theodor Reik
"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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20 Quotes by Theodor Reik
Theodor Reik has 20 quotes on this site.
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Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
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No person loving or admiring himself is alone.
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The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could…
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Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.
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Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others,…
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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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Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in…
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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic…
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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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In our civilization men are afraid they will not be man enough, and women are afraid that they might be…
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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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We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.
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