Superstition brings you bad luck. Umberto Eco (1932-2016)
- A black cat crossing
your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. Groucho Marx (1890-1977)
- To teach superstitions
as truths is a most terrible thing.
Hypatia
(350/370-415)
- To a black cat brings
bad luck being crossed by a car. Giordano Bruno Guerri (1950-), Pensieri scorretti, 2007
- I think I bring
myself bad luck. Every time that something bad happens to me,
I'm always there around. Andrea Gaddini
(1961-)
Anche
le formiche, 2007
- Superstition is
to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of
a wise mother. Voltaire
(1694-1778)Treatise on Tolerance,
1763;
- Superstition
is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund
Burke (1729–1797), Reflections on
the Revolution, 1790;
- O superstition!
Your inflexible rigours deprive humanity of the most sensitive
hearts. Voltaire (1694-1778) Fanatacism, or Mahomet the Prophet,
1.2, 1741;
- Superstition
carries along with it some image of pusillanimity. Michel Eyquem
de Montaigne (1533-1592) Essays, 2.1,
1580/95
- Superstition
is the art of putting yourself in order with the coincidences.
Jean
Cocteau (1889-1963)
- Humanity has the
stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost
under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
Isaac
Asimov (1920-1992)
- 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. Denis Diderot (1713-1784) Pensées philosophiques,
III, 1746.
- Superstition is, always has been, and forever
will be the foe of progress, the enemy of education, and the assassin
of freedom. Robert
Green Ingersoll (1833-1899)
“The
Works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, (1907) p.1083, Library of
Alexandria.
- In fact men will fight for a superstition
quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since
a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute
it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable. Hypatia (350/370-415)
- Ignorance and superstition
ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. James Fenimore
Cooper (1789-1851)
- This is indeed a
clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but
between reason and superstition. Polly Toynbee (1946-)
- We have to be very
conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition.
A prohibition that comes from a superstition. Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929-)
- Depend
on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work
for the rabbit. R. E. Shay
- Conscience
without judgment is superstition. Benjamin Whichcote (1609-1683)
- Trying
to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up
something made of wood by using a magnet. Philip Pullman (1946-)
- Quintus Curtius
clearly pointed out that there is no more effective means of governing
the masses than superstition. Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)
- The
birth of science was the death of superstition. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
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