Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
SIGMUND FREUDReligion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
SIGMUND FREUDA civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
SIGMUND FREUDWhat progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
SIGMUND FREUDIn the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
SIGMUND FREUDThe goal of all life is death.
SIGMUND FREUDIt is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
SIGMUND FREUDHuman beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly.
SIGMUND FREUDThe paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
SIGMUND FREUDThe only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
SIGMUND FREUDImmorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
SIGMUND FREUDHistory is just new people making old mistakes.
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 FREUDA man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
SIGMUND FREUDThe liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
SIGMUND FREUDCivilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
SIGMUND FREUDEverywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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