A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.
Sigmund FreudThe facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in the hypothesis that the mental apparatus endeavours to keep the quantity of excitation present in it as low as possible or at least to keep it constant.
Sigmund FreudReligion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.
Sigmund Freudall the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.
Sigmund Freud