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

- Theodor Reik

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

- Theodor Reik

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

- Theodor Reik

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

- Theodor Reik

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

- Theodor Reik

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

- Theodor Reik

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

- Theodor Reik

Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructibl…

- Theodor Reik

It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour.

- Theodor Reik