Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.
We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress.
Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is a superstition and a curse; and anything like an adequate and complete morality without religion is impossible. The only salvation for man is in the union of the two as Christianity unites them.
The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition.
No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.
Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.
Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations.
Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.
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 coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
Religion is not removed by removing superstition.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.
Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.
Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.