Sigmund Freud Quotes
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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
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Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.
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The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.
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Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.
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Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.
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When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.
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Religious 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.
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.
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The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do.
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Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
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We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.
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I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem.
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But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
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Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger of coming to mental harm, being unable to cope with the idea of a godless, purposeless life.
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
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In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to man's happiness, susceptibility to culture and moral control are no better than this, the question cannot but arise whether we are not overrating its necessity for mankind, and whether we do wisely in basing our cultural demands upon it.