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Sigmund Freud — Portrait after a picture by Max Halberstadt (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Sigmund Freud

Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis

1856–1939

24 quotes, most often on Love, Anti-Religion and Religion.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
“New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis” (1933)
- Anti-Religion
- Religion
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 necessities.
“New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis” (1933)
- Anti-Religion
- Religion
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.
The Future of an Illusion (1927), Ch. 8
- Anti-Religion
- Faith
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.
The Future of an Illusion (1927), Ch. 6
- Anti-Religion
- Religion

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