Sigmund Freud on Religion
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Sigmund Freud, catalogued under Religion, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Sigmund Freud, entry #62135: "Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
Attributed to Sigmund Freud, entry #195195: "Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion."
5 Quotes by Sigmund Freud on Religion
"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
"Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion."
"At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father."
"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."
"Man found that he was faced with the acceptance of "spiritual" forces, that is to say such forces as cannot be comprehended by the senses, particularly not by sight, and yet having undoubted, even extremely strong, effects. If we may trust to language, it was the movement of the air that provided the image of spirituality, since the spirit borrows its name from the breath of wind . The idea of the soul was thus born as the spiritual principle in the individual. Observation found the breath of air again in the human breath, which ceases with death; even today we talk of a dying man breathing his last. Now the realm of spirits had opened for man, and he was ready to endow everything in nature with the soul he had discovered in himself."