Quote #44
Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
More from Sigmund Freud
- Religion... comprises a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else …
- Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
- Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
- Sex is the mathematical urge repressed.
- It must be admitted that women have but little sense of justice, and this is no doubt connected with the preponderance of envy in their men…
- Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
- In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
- Such progress we have made! In the Middle Ages, they would have burned me as a witch, but now they are content to burn my book.