Sigmund Freud Quotes

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

I am not, personally, a believer or a religious man in any sense of institutional commitment or practice. But I have a great respect for religion, and the subject has always fascinated me, beyond almost all others (with a few exceptions, like evolution and paleontology).

I would say I have a complicated relationship with institutionalized religion.

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

Revealed religion had no weight with me.

After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.

I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect on human affairs. What is it? What does it represent? Why have we invented it? How does it keep going? What will become of it? I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I've thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you believe.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

I don't really like the word 'religion.' To me, that's like rules and regulations and paying money to send up prayers. That kind of all weirds me out, honestly.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.

Theology is unnecessary.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.