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Quote by Sigmund Freud
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact

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

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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. – Sigmund Freud

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Psychology
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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times. – Sigmund Freud

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God
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I think Im fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, its impossible to ignore. – Tom Perrotta

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In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles. – Hillary Clinton

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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. – David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature, 1739

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The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion. – Billy Sunday

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