Superstitions Quotes - Page 6

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Superstition is part of the poetry of life.

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

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence

The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the only corrective, therefore, of superstition is physical science.

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern.

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.

Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition.

I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition which stood in the way of rational modern politics. I side with Gandhi, who wanted religious figures out of politics but also was suspicious of purely rational politics.

Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.