Superstition brings you bad luck. Umberto Eco (1932-2016)
- To teach superstitions
as truths is a most terrible thing.
Hypatia
(350/370-415)
- 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)
- Superstition carries
along with it some image of pusillanimity. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) Essays, 2.1,
1580/95
- Conscience without judgment is
superstition. Benjamin
Whichcote (1609-1683)
- Quintus Curtius
clearly pointed out that there is no more effective means of governing
the masses than superstition. Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)
- Superstition is
to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of
a wise mother. Voltaire
(1694-1778)Treatise on Tolerance,
1763;
- O superstition!
Your inflexible rigours deprive humanity of the most sensitive
hearts. Voltaire (1694-1778) Fanatacism, or Mahomet the Prophet,
1.2, 1741;
- 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 the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund
Burke (1729–1797), Reflections on
the Revolution, 1790;
- Ignorance and
superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each
other. James
Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
- The
birth of science was the death of superstition. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
-
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.
- When knowledge
comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.
Mary
Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958), “The Red
Lamp”, (1925);
- Superstition
is the art of putting yourself in order with the coincidences.
Jean
Cocteau (1889-1963)
- A black cat crossing
your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. Groucho Marx (1890-1977)
- 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)
- 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-)
- This is indeed a
clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but
between reason and superstition. Polly Toynbee (1946-)
- Trying
to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up
something made of wood by using a magnet. Philip Pullman (1946-)
- 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
- Depend
on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work
for the rabbit. R. E. Shay
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