Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.
Religion is not removed by removing superstition.
A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.
Such crimes has superstition caused.
My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.
Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse.
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.
As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined to superstition, it is proper not to oppose them.
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
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.
Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.
Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress.
Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.
The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the only corrective, therefore, of superstition is physical science.
We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.
He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form. "Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?" "The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.