Sigmund Freud on Truth
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Sigmund Freud, catalogued under truth, with dates where available.
This page displays 8 quotations attributed to Sigmund Freud and filed under "truth" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Sigmund Freud, entry #221073: "Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor."
Attributed to Sigmund Freud, entry #117597: "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."
8 Quotes by Sigmund Freud on Truth
"Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor."
"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."
"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."
"Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home."
"If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?"
"The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions, by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis."
"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."
"The unconscious is the larger circle which includes within itself the smaller circle of the conscious; everything conscious has its preliminary step in the unconscious, whereas the unconscious may stop with this step and still claim full value as a psychic activity. Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs."