Atheism Quote by Sam Harris

Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.

— Thomas A. Edison

Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

— Richard Dawkins

Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.

— Penn Jillette

The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our mortality is…

— Stanley Kubrick

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

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

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Some view mental illness as a purely spiritual issue and deny the need for medication or other forms of treatment. Others view it as…

— Sheila Walsh

I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

— Robert Anton Wilson

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in…

— Shannon L. Alder

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

I think most religious belief structures are essentially like mind viruses.

— Panos Cosmatos