“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and some magic. It's not a strictly spiritual affair; it has psychological… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“When I think of how much this world has suffered; when I think of how long our fathers were slaves, of how… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Hardly can it be judged whether it be better for mankind to believe that the gods have regard of us, or that… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“God is our final say in who and what's negative and who and what's positive in our lives. It is best not… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The dreadful superstition that it is possible to foresee the future shape of society serves to justify all kinds of violence in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“When we are meditating in a haunted graveyard, or even in our rooms, frightening external and internal appearances may arise during Chöd… — Zongtrul Losang Tsöndru Copy Share Image
“Zeal to expunge every trace of Romish superstition resulted in text scrutinizing and “arguments from silence” that forbade traditions such as the… — Lori Branch Copy Share Image
“It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Though the continued march of intellect and education have nearly obliterated from the mind of the Scots a belief in the marvelous,… — James Grant Copy Share Image
“It is superstitious to put one's hope in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back. — James Randi Copy Share Image
Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never… — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The reasoning man who rejects the superstitions of simpletons necessarily becomes their enemy; he must expect as much and be prepared to… — The Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. — Jean-Francois de La Harpe Copy Share Image
“Despite, or because of their faith in miraculous cures, a strain of superstitious belief ran through this proud, emotionally distant family of… — Meryle Secrest Copy Share Image
Any month that begins on a Sunday will contain a Friday the 13th, and there is at least one Friday the 13th… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Like ugly Asian babies, valid superstitions don’t exist. At best, any perceived effect of a superstition is you merely psyching yourself out.… — Orlando Winters Copy Share Image
Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“It’s an old tradition or perhaps a superstition. Never call something by its true name if you wish to avoid calling its… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
