Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.
You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
In all superstition wise men follow fools.
On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.
An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.
Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
Superstition is part of the poetry of life.
To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.
The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.
Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
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.
Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.
Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern with chemicals. The contrary view- that all ideas are determined by material relationships- is the materialist superstition.
It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.