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"Well, he [Freud] has a very nice quotation from Goethe on an unpublished poem, and not surprisingly unpublished. This says: "The people who have science and art also do have religion. Those who do not have either science or art have to have religion." Well it's a very interesting idea. In fact, I don't think it is totally obvious how you have to interpret it, especially the first part. I think there's a way one can interpret the first sentence: Wer Wissenschaft und Kunst Besitzt hat auch Religion. It basically means well, you know, science and art is a sort of a religion, and if you are actually a scientist or an artist, you have your religion; you even don't have to be religious. But if you have no science or no art, in order to make sense of the life you need religion. And that's — I think it's not surprising that he never published the poem."

© Iván Szelényi
Yale Lectures on Foundations of Modern Social Thought
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