Consolation Quote by Sigmund Freud Download Open image “The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.” — Sigmund Freud ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consolation Effects May Narcotics Religion
“If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The soul theoretically is the purview of religion. But in today’s society, relatively few people look to religion to truly heal their despair –… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
the heart of religion is not altered states but altered traits of character. For me, then, the test of a substance's religious worth or… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs may produce… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Religion is a drug, and to take drugs is degrading,' he said. 'You must learn to look life in the face. Throw away your… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Whereas cognitive constraints on negative emotions can reduce distress, freeing positive emotions from such constraints can enhance religious experience.” — Gerald L. Clore 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
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role that we… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation. — Clementine Paddleford Copy Share Image
Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun. — Thomas Cogswell Upham Copy Share Image
I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation. — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
