Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud

"Religious ideas, in spite of their incontrovertible lack of authentication, have exercised the strongest possible influence on mankind. This is a psychological problem."

"[religious beliefs] must exorcise the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them"