Sigmund Freud Religion Quotations

Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

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.

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such...

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.