Childhood Quote by Sigmund Freud

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

— Sigmund Freud

Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis

— Sigmund Freud

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

— Sigmund Freud

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

— Sigmund Freud

“But the child grows up, and reaches adolescence. He stands on the threshold of life, and the school-bench is left behind him. School has…

— Lyubov Dostoyevskaya

If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a…

— 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

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

“There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.”

— Richard Dawkins

“The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly concerned with…

— René Girard

If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind…

— Ninon de L'Enclos

“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have…

— Sigmund Freud