Superstition is the poetry of life.
Religion and science are the two wings upon which man's intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress. It is not possible to fly with one wing alone! Should a man try to fly with the wing of religion alone he would quickly fall into the quagmire of superstition, whilst on the other hand, with the wing of science alone he would also make no progress, but fall into the despairing slough of materialism.
A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.
The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what feels good, we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness.
A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state.
Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is a superstition and a curse; and anything like an adequate and complete morality without religion is impossible. The only salvation for man is in the union of the two as Christianity unites them.
Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.
Our civilization. . . is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.
My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse.
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.
Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition.
Religion is not removed by removing superstition.
Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.
The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.
It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.