Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition. — Paul Kenneth Keller Copy Share Image
Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions. — Thomas Huxley 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
Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never-relaxing crusade against skepticism and dogmatism, against disbelief and against… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or… — Nicola Cabibbo Copy Share Image
Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the… — Bryan Fischer 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
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
Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“As regards his health--and the rest of the things--the average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
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