Beast Quote by Jean-Francois de La Harpe

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

— Baron d'Holbach

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

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 always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

— Joy Browne

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

— Edmund Burke

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

Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.

— Voltaire

Superstition brings the gods into even the smallest matters

— Titus Livy

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

— John Sterling

“Superstitions are primal in nature and because they feed on instinct, having nothing but disdain for reason, they are often swift and unexpected messengers…

— Mansoor Nazeer