The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.
- Sigmund Freud
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Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more... The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge “of their own free... Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but... No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis... So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest... Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable... Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We... It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the... There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity’s aggressive tendencies… Complete suppression of man’s... Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We... The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer.... Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere... Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as... The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are... It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate...
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