Quotes by Freud, Sigmund

Where id was, there shall ego be. >>

Sexual love is undoubtedly one of the chief things in life, and the un >>

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and >>

Quotations about Religion

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it >>

A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolera >>

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from th >>

Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.

Freud, Sigmund