Sigmund Freud Quotes

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Sigmund Freud

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• Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Religion
  • Illusion
  • Desires