Sigmund Freud Quotes

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.

Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?

The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

I am quite spiritual. I believed in the fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the fairies. And the leprechauns. But I don't believe in God.

Fear created the first gods in the world.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

Nearly every tribe and nearly every human being has gods. Belief in gods is all over the place. It's universal. It squeaks and squoozes from every pore of humanity.

Do I believe in the devil? I don't believe in a figure with horns and a tail.

It is my belief that all gods are stories, or at least the ideas behind stories, but stories or ideas that have become in some way almost alive and aware.

All Gods were immortal.

Fear first made gods in the world.

We have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar. We have had to cap the natural with the supernatural to satisfy our love for the marvelous and the inexplicable.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

If the devil went about doing a tenth of what he is accused of doing he would be poor from paying the blacksmith for ox-shoes for his hooves.

If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God.

God is a good God, and the Devil is a bad Devil.

The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.