The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to… — 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
Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the… — 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
Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If all the evidence put forward for the authenticity of religious teachings originates in the past, it is natural to look round… — 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
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
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
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
It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that… — 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
“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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