Acceptance Quote by Anatole France

The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared…

— Sigmund Freud

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

— Sigmund Freud

All neurotics seek the religious

— Carl Jung

A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither…

— Albert Einstein

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes…

— Albert Ellis

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

— Sigmund Freud

Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness and protection…

— Sigmund Freud

Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis

— Sigmund Freud

However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings…

— Carl Jung