Religious Quotes by Sigmund Freud

Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is…

— Sigmund Freud

The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

— Sigmund Freud

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as…

— Sigmund Freud

When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

— Sigmund Freud

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to…

— Sigmund Freud

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

— Sigmund Freud

These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of…

— Sigmund Freud

Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against…

— Sigmund Freud

It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that…

— Sigmund Freud

If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to…

— Sigmund Freud

Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the…

— Sigmund Freud

It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual…

— Sigmund Freud

“When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to…

— Sigmund Freud

...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from…

— Sigmund Freud

Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to…

— Sigmund Freud

Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that…

— Sigmund Freud

Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to…

— Sigmund Freud

If all the evidence put forward for the authenticity of religious teachings originates in the past, it is natural to look round…

— Sigmund Freud

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