Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with the enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to be a believer in a lot of superstition and nonsense - there’s a difference between thinking to oneself… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“ Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Always marveling at how New Age pseudo-philosophy had taken over the Internet.” — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
“Tradition of heartless facts is no better than the tradition of mindless assumptions.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“ Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy? How many things served us yesterday for… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The American people spend thousands of dollars to propagate the doctrines of the fall of man, the creation of the world out… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
“ Ingersoll could not understand the mind of those who, once having been told the truth, preferred to remain under the spell… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The Celt, and his cromlechs, and his pillar-stones, these will not change much – indeed, it is doubtful if anybody at all… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith… — Charles A. Coulombe Copy Share Image
“On present-day Earth we have the most Christ-like nation in human history, a civilization built on loving kindness and demilitarization. They are… — Doug Ten Rose Copy Share Image
I have to put my outfit on in the same order. It's sort of a superstition. The last thing I put on… — Jenny Ryan 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
“It becomes ever increasingly clear to many students of man and of the contemporary scene that the crucial difficulty with which we… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
“There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
“He knew clearly enough that his imagination was growing traitor to him, and yet at times it seemed the ship he sailed… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
