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Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is Thou shalt not question.

Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."

Sigmund Freud
Reality, Confusion, Religion
"The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, 1927.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.

Sigmund Freud
Pain, Reality, Illusion
Sigmund Freud (2014). “Reflections on War and Death”, p.10, The Floating Press

The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

Sigmund Freud
Reality, Men, Satisfaction

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.

Sigmund Freud
Reality, Ego, Suffering

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
Atheist, Attitude, Reality
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.

Sigmund Freud
Reality, Wish, Force
Sigmund Freud (1973). “Abstracts of the Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensable to the preservation and justification of existence in society.

Sigmund Freud
Work, Mean, Reality
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

Sigmund Freud
Pain, Reality, Investing
Sigmund Freud (2014). “Reflections on War and Death”, p.10, The Floating Press

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

Sigmund Freud
Reality, Physical Attraction
Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1957). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: On the history of psycho-analytic movement, papers on metapsychology and other works”

It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just as the pleasure principle itself, indeed, under the influence of the external world, changed into the more modest reality principle -, if a man thinks himself happy merely to have escaped unhappiness or to have survived his suffering, and if in general the task of avoiding suffering pushes that of obtaining pleasure into the background.

Sigmund Freud
Reality, Men, Thinking

The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole.

Sigmund Freud
Reality, Long, Ego
Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.4, Courier Corporation

No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community.

Sigmund Freud
Reality, Giving, Community
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.

Sigmund Freud
Reality, Patient, Reason

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