# Quote — Freud Sigmund, The Future of an Illusion

> But man's helplessness remains and along with it his longing for his father, and the gods. The gods retain their threefold task: they 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.

- Author: [Freud Sigmund](https://www.leafyquotes.com/freud-sigmund.md)
- Book: [The Future of an Illusion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/freud-sigmund/the-future-of-an-illusion.md)
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> It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

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> Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

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> "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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