Desire Quote by Christopher Hitchens

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

— John Sterling

The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just…

— Michael Shermer

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of…

— Richard Whately

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson that my…

— James D. Watson

Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may…

— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We have to recognize that spirituality is a legitimate dimension in the psyche. It's a legitimate dimension in the universal scheme of things. It…

— Stanislav Grof

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

— Theophrastus

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.

— Joy Browne

I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of…

— Gerry Spence

“The supernatural worldview is causing a great number of otherwise intelligent people to cling to a collection of atavistic concepts that have not, and…

— Kelli Jae Baeli