Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert… — David Hume Copy Share Image
No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee. — Natalie Coughlin Copy Share Image
A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition. — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I beg you to believe the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“A cautionary tale I had carried with me from China, and which I firmly believed, was that anyone who attempted to have… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
