Sigmund Freud Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

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

  Sigmund Freud

  Strength, Death, Spiritual

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

• The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Atheist, Attitude, Reality

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

• The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religion, Kind, Share

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

• It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Religion, Obsessive Compulsive

• The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Men, Religion

  1927 The Future of an Illusion.

• I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion

  Sigmund Freud

  Enemy, Religion, Dangerous

• Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Childhood, Religion

  SIGMUND FREUD “THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION”

• Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Teaching, Views

  "The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, Ch. 8, 1927.

• Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

  Sigmund Freud

  Humanity, Religion, Atheism

  Sigmund freud (1975). “Gen Intro Psycho”, Pocket

• At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

  Sigmund Freud

  Father, Religion, Bottom

  1927 The Future of an Illusion.

• When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

  Sigmund Freud

  Science, Religion, Imagine

• Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religion, Neurosis, Psychiatry

• Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

  Sigmund Freud

  Running, Attitude, Civilization

• If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness, and it guides - by - precepts - backed by the full force of its authority.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Giving, Mind

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

• Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would proceed unobtrusively. . . .

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Fear, Civilization

  Sigmund Freud (1973). “Abstracts of the Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

• 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 Freud

  Reality, Confusion, Religion

  "The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, 1927.

• Religion 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 necessites.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Life, Mean

  SIGMUND FREUD (1933). “NEW INTRODUCTORY LECTURES ON PSYCHO-ANALYSIS”

• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Self, Ideas, People

• Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.

  Sigmund Freud

  Crush, Religious, Nature

  "The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, Ch. 3, 1927.

• Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

  Sigmund Freud

  Lying, People, Intellectual

• Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Writing, Secret

  Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.453, Courier Corporation

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