The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition… — Eugen Drewermann Copy Share Image
Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
A state of skepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most… — Hypathia of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most… — Ezra Levant Copy Share Image
We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication . — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If abuses are destroyed, we must destroy them. If slaves are freed, we must free them. If new truths are discovered, we… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television. — Michael Ramsey Copy Share Image
I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of… — Elihu Palmer Copy Share Image
Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We are now returning to the 18th century empirical approach with the new interest in the evolutionary basis of ethics, with 'experimental'… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
