"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.“

-Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud quote about god: "Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he i..."

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