Quotes About Superstition

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

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

The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

Heathen n. A beknighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

When people cease to believe in God they don't believe in nothing they believe in anything.

If the thunder is not loud the peasant forgets to cross himself.

I don't respect religon. I don't respect superstitious thinking and that is what religous is.

Thoughts rapping quietly, metallically, distinctly: a mysterious aero carries me to the blue heights of my favorite abstractions. And here in this cleanest sharp air, I see my rationale about my "rights" burst with a light pop, like a pneumatic tire. And I can see clearly that these ideas about "rights" were merely a throwback from a ridiculous superstition of the Ancients.

Would one not say that these lines had been written yesterday ? More than ever our age of unrest makes us the prey of impulses, and to the majority of our contemporaries, the robe, half green and half yellow (by recalling to them the worship of common sense), will become a fetish, more precious than all the amulets with which superstition loves to adorn logic, or to incorporate fantastic outline in the classic setting of beautiful jewels.

Beautiful things always intimidate me [...] More than that, they drag me down. How can that be? Is it a superstition that beauty elevates mankind?

Religion cannot be equated with superstition, because most people are unlikely to call their cherished beliefs 'superstitions'. We always believe in 'the truth'. It's only other people who believe in superstitions.

Hasta la era moderna, los humanos achacaban las enfermedades al mal aire, a demonios malévolos y a dioses enfurecidos, y no sospechaban de la existencia de bacterias ni virus

In Western European realist fiction, what is a writer going to do (we wondered out loud) with the irrational, with synchronicities, with superstition and the private magic we invent to keep us out of harm's way, with the uncanny, with thought streams and digressions that contradict our attempt to fix the story?

But if you plot revenge against an evildoer, you are harming yourself: Not because the thought may come back to injure you, which is superstition, but because negative thinking reinforces the source of negativity. Darkness adds to darkness.

At present the dominant story, collectively speaking, is scientific, and one aspect of the mind is given credit for advancing human evolution: rational thought. If we pity our forebears for their difficulty in getting past superstition and myth, the future may pity us for glorifying the rational mind and neglecting the whole mind.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.