Quotes by Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsew — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as tru — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misde — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a mor — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of wh — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
Perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the purely human origin of — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all y — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless re — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
If we turn to those restrictions that only apply to certain classes of society, we encounter a state of things which is — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion. — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual m — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
If you want to expel religion from our European civilization, you can only do it by means of another system of doctrines — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
Religion has clearly performed great services for human civilization. It has contributed much towards the taming of the — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
At this point it may be objected: well, then, if even the crabbed sceptics admit that the statements of religion cannot — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
One thus gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic e — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion