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  • It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends to become unspiritual and inhuman. It is life without existence, superstition without faith. It may stamp all flat; it is disinclined to tolerate independence and greatness, but prone to constrain people to become as automatic as ants.

  • The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself. It, too, is based on a lack of faith. We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.136, Beacon Press
  • The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.

  • The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.

  • The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of the child from superstitions imposed upon it by ignorant nurses or silly mothers.

    Mother   Children   Silly  
  • Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

  • The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.

    Will Durant (2011). “The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization”, p.221, Simon and Schuster
  • Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires, he was anathema and black terror to be destroyed. And, abruptly, the concept came, amusing to him even in his pain. ... Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

    Pain   Circles   People  
    Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett
  • The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

    Memories   Men   Roots  
    Francis Bacon (1826). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban and Lord High Chancellor of England: Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: Colours of good and evil. Essays of counsels civil and moral. Theological works”, p.70
  • Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or economic power. Humanity that disavows science risks falling into the hands of superstition.

    Fall   Technology   Hands  
    "Address to the Holy Father". "The cultural values of science", The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Scripta Varia 105, page xiv, November 8-11, 2002.
  • If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable phrases but there's no plot, no structure, a tremendous amount of filler and the characters are painfully one dimensional. Whatever you do, don't read the bible for a moral code. It advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition and murder. Read it because we need more atheists.

  • I don't have many superstitions, just dumb things I don't talk about. I will not sign an autograph with a green pen.

    "The Mario Andretti Indy 500 Interview: Part II". Interview with Steven Capwell, www.littlepocketguide.com.
  • Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

  • Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

    Letter to the Rev. George V. Coyne on June 01, 1988. "John Paul II on science and religion: reflections on the new view from Rome". Book edited by George Coyne, 1990.
  • I have endeavoured to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.

    "The Degraded Status of Woman in the Bible". Free Thought Magazine 14: 540, September 1896.
  • 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.

  • The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.

    Jawaharlal Nehru (1989). “Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography : with Musings on Recent Events in India”, Vintage
  • A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

    Horse   Believe   Camels  
    George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.45, Wordsworth Editions
  • There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.

  • …We were born vampires." "I thought you became –" "— vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can turn people into vampires, it’s an easy technique, but what would be the point? When you eat… now what is it you eat? Oh yes, chocolate… you don’t want to turn it into another Agnes Nitt, do you? Less chocolate to go around." He sighed. "Oh dear, superstition, superstition everywhere we turn.

  • I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.

  • Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.

  • I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition. ... We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.

    "Evolution of the Brain: Creation of the Self", p.241, 1989.
  • History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

    Truth   Humility   Fate  
    "The Coming of Age of 'The Origin of Species' " (1880)
  • A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.27, Courier Corporation
  • [In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

    Taken   Miracle   Magic  
  • Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.

    Astrology   Tree   Shade  
  • It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

    Funny   Sarcastic   Mind  
    'The Leningrad Notebooks' (c.1735-c.1750) in T. Besterman (ed.) 'Notebooks' (2nd ed., 1968) vol. 2, p. 455
  • 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.

    Believe   Men   Idols  
  • To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

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