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Sigmund Freud

Quote of Sigmund Freud - Religion is an illusion and it...


Biography - Sigmund Freud:

Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis.
Born: 1856 - Died: 1939
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Czech Republic
Czech Republic

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.



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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.





Important matters may manifest themselves through small signs.





Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.





The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.





Whatever makes for cultural development is working also against war.





The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied:












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