In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.
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Related Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis SIGMUND FREUD The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is some... ROBERT WINSTON The neurosis in which the search for safety takes its clearest form is in the compulsive-obsessive n... ABRAHAM MASLOW Two games in four days is brutal. You have to be just short of Sigmund Freud to figure out this one. ORONDE GADSDEN Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our cul... TONY CAMPOLO There is always this element of concealed accusation in neurosis, the patient feeling as though he w... ALFRED ADLER Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about pers... THOMAS SZASZ Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about pers... THOMAS S. SZASZ If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a las... SIGMUND FREUD Freud is all nonsense; the secret of neurosis is to be found in the family battle of wills to see wh... JULIAN MITCHELL What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL We're doing some significant things different on offense, but there is enough carry-over that it did... GARY PINKEL People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senseles... C.G. JUNG Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; th... SIGMUND FREUD Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; th... ANATOLE FRANCE Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in f... SEBASTIAN HORSLEY It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a rea... ALFRED ADLER As a whole part of psychological education it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable... JAMES AGEE As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuab... JAMES AGEE So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm... GENE WILDER It was Freud's ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his tim... JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER Analytically speaking, Sigmund Freud talked out of his arse DEAN CAVANAGH Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. SIGMUND FREUD A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. SIGMUND FREUD A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping. KENNETH TYNAN A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping KENNETH TYNAN The king is so subtle with his words that he would confound the apostolic religion itself. He will f... THOMAS BECKET An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to accept this or that... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor. LAURA LINNEY I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle... SAM TAYLOR-WOOD The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surm... H. L. MENCKEN People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round an... VINCENT D'ONOFRIO It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary fi... BERTRAND RUSSELL It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary f... BERTRAND RUSSELL It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary fi... BERTRAND RUSSELL Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no ... LAURENCE STERNE The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis. ARTHUR ADAMOV Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. CARL JUNG Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. CARL GUSTAV JUNG The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have... STEVEN PINKER As said by Sigmund Freud, if anxiety is damned up libido then, peace is nothing but a transformed li... DR HITESH C SHETH We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of for... SIGMUND FREUD It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It i... KATHERINE DUNN Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible... ZOLTAN KODALY ...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy... EVELYN WAUGH You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understan... ABRAHAM MASLOW Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. PAUL TILLICH Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being PAUL TILLICH The life of a high achiever is one of give-and-receive. We receive that which we are willing to firs... GREG WERNER The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them... PLINY THE ELDER The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them... PLINY He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long a... JOHN SELDEN Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you s... HENRY L. DOHERTY All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Hostel is one phase in a man's life that teaches him what Indian mothers fail to teach their childre... PARUL WADHWA This is the problem of history. We cannot know that which we were not there to see and hear and expe... YAA GYASI Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist... JOHN IRVING It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since... JAMES DEAN Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled ... ALFRED ADLER If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as... SYLVIA PLATH Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much... MARCEL PROUST Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornicati... JOSEPH HELLER Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges i... CHARLES DICKENS If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more t... RICHARD BRAUTIGAN National isolation breeds national neurosis. HUBERT H. HUMPHREY A brilliant idea is like a baby in a mothers womb. You need to bring it out in the world, nurtu... MANOJ ARORA The Inhumans, just as an idea - the idea that you were an ordinary horseman until you were exposed t... CHARLES SOULE Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translate... NATHANIEL BRANDEN Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. THEODOR REIK Where there is a will there is a way. is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by ... SAMUEL SMILES Where there is a will there is a way. is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by ... JOAN RIVERS 'Where there is a will there is a way'.' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, ... SAMUEL SMILES In childhood, you long to grow up fast because older people are more powerful, young men more powerf... OSHO Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greate... KAREN HORNEY Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the ... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and... SIGMUND FREUD I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to s... JERRY SEINFELD "Where there is a will there is a way," is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thin... SAMUEL SMILES That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which ... LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE A lot of senior citizens don't get out much. They have no idea who he is. If you come and listen to ... DOLORAS CARTER The key to a vibrant middle class is an abundance of jobs that pay enough so that workers can provid... MARCO RUBIO There is a folk-tale about a shoemaker and his wife who were so poor that they had to send their man... GYULA ILLYéS Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is t... BILL COSBY if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are... GEORGES BATAILLE A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himsel... LUCIAN FREUD We are so similar in many ways, in that we are both so eclectic, ... And we love so many genres of m... CHAKA KHAN So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; ... BARUCH SPINOZA I got this idea for the business from a friend in Fort Collins that started a similar business but s... DAREK FARMER Just knowing he will not be here Christmas morning when they unwrap the gifts and that type of thing... ANNETTE SCARLETT To be modern means to like antique furniture - and youthful neurosis. HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL National isolation breeds national neurosis. HUBERT HUMPHREY The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of t... JOHN DONNE
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