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
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 idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to… — 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
When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion. — 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
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 is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a… — 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