Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion’s eleventh commandment is “Thou shalt not question.
SIGMUND FREUDReligion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion’s eleventh commandment is “Thou shalt not question.
SIGMUND FREUDReligion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
SIGMUND FREUDLife, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.
SIGMUND FREUDWhen inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
SIGMUND FREUDWords have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.
SIGMUND FREUDTime spent with cats is never wasted.
SIGMUND FREUDReligion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.
SIGMUND FREUDIn the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
SIGMUND FREUDIf you can’t do it, give up!
SIGMUND FREUDNeurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
SIGMUND FREUDThe dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
SIGMUND FREUDOne day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
SIGMUND FREUDImmorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
SIGMUND FREUDBeauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
SIGMUND FREUDHuman beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly.
SIGMUND FREUDThe ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
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