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 mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. – Sigmund Freud

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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. – Sigmund Freud

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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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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. – Jane Austen

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I grew up with the religion of Star Wars, frankly. Thats when I realized there is something bigger out there… and its called The Force. – Trey Parker

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I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted. – Luke Ford

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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. – Thomas Jefferson

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