Psychoanalysis and Religion Quotes

“There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

“يعتقد بعض الناس أن العودة إلى الدين هي الإجابة ! لا بوصفها فعلا من أفعال الإيمان , بل للهروب من شك لا سبيل إلى احتماله , وهؤلاء لا يتخذون هذا القرار تعبدا , بل بحثا عن الأمن”
― إيرك فروم, التحليل النفسي والدين

“The more man understands and masters nature the less he needs to use religion as a scientific explanation and as a magical device for controlling nature.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

“To some people return to religion is the answer, not as an act of faith but in order to escape an intolerable doubt; they make this decision not out of devotion but in search of security.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

“تحالف الدين من جهة مع السلطة السياسية , أصبح بالضرورة ديناً تسلطياً والخطيئة الحقيقية للانسان هي إغترابه عن نفسه واذعانه للقوة على نفسه حتى لو كان ذلك تحت قناع عبادة الأله”
― إيرك فروم, التحليل النفسي والدين

“The Jewish and particularly the Christian traditions have stressed the element of sin but have ignored the fact that it is the emancipation from the security of Paradise which is the basis for man’s truly human development.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

“الإذعان والتسليم لسلطة قوية هو أحد السبل التى يستطيع بها الانسان أن يهرب من شعوره بالوحدة والمحدودية!وفي فعل الإستسلام يفقد استقلاله وتكامله بوصفه فردا ليكتسب الشعور بأن قوة مهيبة تحمية , بحيث يصبح جزءا منها”
― إيرك فروم, التحليل النفسي والدين

“حسبنا أن نتأمل بعض الأخبار التى نطالعها في الصحف صباح مساء.. اقتراح بإقامة الصلوات في الكنائس نتيجة لنقص المياه في نيويورك , على حين يحاول " صناع المطر " اسقاطه بوسائل كيميائية”
― إيرك فروم, التحليل النفسي والدين

“الإله قد أصبح في الدين التسلطي الملك الوحيد لما كان يملكة الإنسان أصلاً : أعني العقل والحب , وكلما كان الاله أكمل , كان الإنسان أنقص , أنه يسقط أفضل ماعنده على الاله , ومن ثم يفقر نفسه”
― إيرك فروم, التحليل النفسي والدين

“العنصر الجوهرى في الدين التسلطى هو الاستسلام لقوة تعلو على الانسان , والفضيلة الأساسية في هذا النمط من الدين هي الطاعة, والخطيئة الكبرى هي العصيان .”
― إيرك فروم, التحليل النفسي والدين

“كلما زاد وعي الإنسان بنفسه , كلما أدرك عجزه والقيود التى تحد وجوده فتنبأ بنهايته - الموت”
― إيرك فروم, التحليل النفسي والدين

“رجل اللاهوت يهتم اهتماما شديدا مبالغا بالمعتقدات الخاصة بدينه ودين الآخرين , لأن ما يهمة هو حقيقة اعتقاده في مقابل اعتقاد الآخرين”
― إيرك فروم, التحليل النفسي والدين

“الإله في الدين الانساني صورة لذات الانسان العليا , ورمز على مايمكن عليه الانسان أو ماينبغى أن يئول اليه”
― إيرك فروم, التحليل النفسي والدين

“بحث الإنسان عن حمى الكنيسة والدين واهتمامه في بقاءهم ,لأن فراغة الباطنى يدفع إلى البحث عن ملاذ , بيد أن اعتقناق الدين لايعني أن يكون المرء متدينا”
― إيرك فروم, التحليل النفسي والدين

“من روح الدين - السياسي التسلطي ترتفع مغالطات وتجريم حول الإستدلال العقلي, بوصفهما أدلة للدفاع عن الدين التأليهى”
― إيرك فروم, التحليل النفسي والدين

“Where the individual feels free and responsible for his own fate, or among minorities striving for freedom and independence, humanistic religious experience develops. The history of religion gives ample evidence of this correlation between social structure and kinds of religious experience. Early Christianity was a religion of the poor and downtrodden; the history of religious sects fighting against authoritarian political pressure shows the same principle again and again. Whenever, on the other hand, religion allied itself with secular power, the religion had by necessity become authoritarian. The real fall of man is his alienation from himself, his submission to power, his turning against himself even though under the guise of his worship of God. Indeed, man is dependent; he remains subject to death, old age, illness, and even if he were to control nature and to make it wholly serviceable to him, he and his earth remain tiny specks in the universe. But it is one thing to recognize one's dependence and limitations, and it is something entirely different to indulge in this dependence, to worship the forces on which one depends. To understand realistically and soberly how limited our power is is an essential part of wisdom and of maturity.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

“ليس صحيحاً أن علينا التنازل عن اهتمامنا بالروح إذا كُنا لا نقبل عقائد الدين , ذلك أن المحلل النفساني في وضع يسمح له بدراسة الإنسان عبر الدين وعبر نسق الرمز اللادينية , وهو يرى أن المسألة ليست هي عودة الإنسان إلى الدين والإيمان بالله , بل هي أن يحيا في الحب ويفكر في الحقيقة”
― إيرك فروم, التحليل النفسي والدين

“Most of human history (with the exception of some primitive societies) is characterized by the fact that a small minority has ruled over and exploited the majority of its fellows. In order to do so, the minority has usually used force; but force is not enough. In the long run, the majority has had to accept its own exploitation voluntarily—and this is only possible if its mind has been filled with all sorts of lies and fictions, justifying and explaining its acceptance of the minority’s rule.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

“Well-being means, finally, to drop one’s Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after the preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one’s self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

“Well-being is the state of having arrived at the full development of reason: reason not in the sense of a merely intellectual judgment, but in that of grasping truth by “letting things be” (to use Heidegger’s term) as they are.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

“Physiologically, our cellular system is in a process of continual birth; psychologically, however, most of us cease to be born at a certain point. Some are completely stillborn; they go on living physiologically when mentally their longing is to return to the womb, to earth, darkness, death; they are insane, or nearly so. Many others proceed further on the path of life. Yet they can not cut the umbilical cord completely, as it were; they remain symbiotically attached to mother, father, family, race, state, status, money, gods, etc.; they never emerge fully as themselves and thus they never become fully born.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

“At the moment of birth, life asks man a question, and this question he must answer. He must answer it at every moment; not his mind, not his body, but he, the person who thinks and dreams, who sleeps and eats and cries and laughs—the whole man—must answer it. What is this question which life poses? The question is: How can we overcome the suffering, the imprisonment, the shame which the experience of separateness creates; how can we find union within ourselves, with our fellow man, with nature? Man has to answer this question in some way; and even in insanity an answer is given by striking out reality outside of ourselves, living completely within the shell of ourselves, and thus overcoming the fright of separateness.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

“Sa stanovišta monoteizma, koji je doveden do njegovih logičnih posledica, nema rasprave oko prirode boga; nijedan čovek ne može da pretpostavi da poseduje bilo kakvo znanje o bogu, koje mu dozvoljava da kritikuje ili osuđuje druge ljude, ili da tvrdi da je njegova ideja o bogu jedina ispravna. Religiozna netolerancija, tako karakteristična za zapadnjačke religije, koja izvire iz takvih tvrdnji i, psihološki govoreći, izvire iz nedostatka vere ili ljubavi, imala je poražavajuće efekte na religiozni razvoj.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

“Čovek će tragati za utočištem u crkvi i religiji, jer ga njegova unutrašnja praznina nagoni da potraži neko sklonište. Međutim, ispovedanje religije nije isto, što i biti religiozan.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

“Pretnja religioznom stavu ne leži u nauci, već u pretežnim praksama svakodnevnog života. Tu je čovek prestao da traži u sebi vrhovni smisao života i od sebe je napravio instrument, koji služi ekonomskoj mašini, koju su njegove ruke napravile. Njega brine efikasnost i uspeh, umesto njegove sreće i rasta njegove duše. Naročito, orijentacija koja većinom ugrožava religiozni stav je ono, što sam nazvao „tržišnom orijentacijom” modernog čoveka.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

“Pri stupanju u vezu sa otcepljenim svetom nesvesnog, čovek menja principe potiskivanja principima prožimanja i integracije. Potiskivanje je čin sile, odsecanja, „zakona i poretka”. Ono uništava veze između našeg ega i neorganizovanog života, iz kog izvire i pretvara naš self u nešto završeno, što više ne raste već umire. Poništavanjem potiskivanja dozvoljavamo sebi da osetimo proces življenja i da imamo veru u život, umesto u poredak.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

“Ako je psihoanaliza efikasna, to nije zato što pacijent prihvata nove teorije o razlozima svog nezadovoljstva, već zato što zahteva kapacitet za to da bude autentično zbunjen; on se čudi otkriću dela sebe, o čijem postojanju nije imao predstavu.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

“Sopstveno postojanje i postojanje ljudi iz okoline ne uzima se zdravo za gotovo, već se oseća kao problem; nije odgovor, već pitanje. Sokratova izjava da je čuđenje početak svekolike mudrosti ne važi samo za mudrost, već i za religiozno iskustvo. Onaj, ko nikada nije bio zbunjen, ko nikada nije pogledao život i sopstveno postojanje kao fenomen, ko zahteva odgovore, a opet, paradoksalno, za koga su jedini odgovori nova pitanja, teško da može da razume šta je religiozno iskustvo.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

“Tragedija svih velikih religija je da one krše i izopačuju same principe slobode čim postanu masovne organizacije, kojima vlada religiozna birokratija.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

“İnsancı dinlerde Tanrı insanın üst benliğinin suretidir, insanın potansiyel olarak ne olduğunun ya da ne olması gerektiğinin bir simgesidir oysa yetkeci dinlerde Tanrı aslında insana ait olanların biricik sahibidir: Aklın ve sevginin. Tanrı daha kusursuz bir hale geldikçe insan daha kusurlu bir hale gelir. İnsan kendine ait en iyi nitelikleri Tanrıya yansıtır, böylelikle de kendini yoksunlaştırır. Madem tüm sevgi, tüm bilgelik, tüm doğruluk Tanrıya ait –ve insan da bu niteliklerden yoksun– öyleyse insan önemsiz ve değersizdir.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion