Philosophy Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“A state of scepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the multitude, that…

— Edward Gibbon

“Nay, if we should suppose, what never happens, that a popular religion were found, in which it was expressly declared, that nothing but morality…

— David Hume

Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.

— Aldous Huxley

“Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon…

— William Hazlitt

“Thus it is brought prominently before us, that superstition’s chief victims are those persons who greedily covet temporal advantages; they it is, who (especially…

— Christopher Hitchens

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of…

— Ludwig von Mises

“The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it,…

— H.L. Mencken

“There is no such thing as a mind without superstition. Your belief that you have no superstition, is just another superstition.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they…

— Voltaire

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

— Jean-Francois de La Harpe

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

— John William Fletcher

“All the superstition this day living in the world is built upon this foundation: so natural it is to man to pull God down…

— William Symington