Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“.It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance with the rules… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
“Ko postavlja pitanje o smislu zivota,s njegovim libidom nije nesto u redu.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
“When it comes to the small matters in life one should think long and hard, but when it comes to the big ones -whether… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
We like to forget that in fact everything in our life is chance, from our genesis out of the encounter of spermatozoon and egg… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and that the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
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