(109 quotes found)
“Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence”
George Jacob Holyoake
“The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition”
Voltaire
“The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition”
George Herbert
“All people have their blind side - their superstitions; and I have heard her declare, under the rose, that hearts were her favourite suit.”
Charles Lamb
“I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.”
Dr. Carl Sagan
“Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain”
John Calvin
“It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality”
Emma Goldman
“Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.”
“Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.”
Victor Hugo
