Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund FreudTags: strength desires illusion
Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
Sigmund FreudTags: questions lies guilty insincerity misdemeanor
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
Sigmund FreudTags: human-nature
It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister.
Sigmund FreudOne day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund FreudTags: inspirational-quotes
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Sigmund FreudIf our research leads us to a result that reduces religion to the status of a neurosis of mankind and explains it's grandiose powers in the same way as we sould neurotic obsession in our individual patients, then we may be sure we shall incur in this country the greatest resentment of the powers that be.
Sigmund FreudReligious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
Sigmund FreudTags: truth illusions belief proof religious-doctrines
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Sigmund FreudWe may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.
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