The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“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… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Three tendencies can be observed in the estimation of dreams. Many philosophers have given currency to one of these tendencies, one which… — 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
“Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which… — 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 more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor. — 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
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against… — 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
“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 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 attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“It is easy to show that the ego ideal answers to everything that is expected of the higher nature of man. As… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“If you want to expel religion from our European civilization, you can only do it by means of another system of doctrines;… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Religion has clearly performed great services for human civilization. It has contributed much towards the taming of the asocial instincts. But not… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. — 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 Image
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 Image
“Ko postavlja pitanje o smislu zivota,s njegovim libidom nije nesto u redu.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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