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Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.
Cesar Nascimento
He could hear that musket ball droning about the room, lethally bisecting it again and again like a billiard ball going from one cushion to another. He remained crouching there for a long time before he was able to convince himself that it was quite impossible, physically speaking, scientifically speaking, for a musket ball to go on and on ricocheting like that in a rectangular room; it could only be his imagination. So he forced himself to stand up again and suffered no ill-effects; a small but significant triumph for the scientific way of looking at things.
J.G. Farrell, The Siege of Krish
Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
Christopher Hitchens
It was sometimes feebly argued, as the political and military war against this enemy ran into difficulties, that it was 'a war without end.' I never saw the point of this plaintive objection. The war against superstition and the totalitarian mentality is an endless war. In protean forms, it is fought and refought in every country and every generation. In bin Ladenism we confront again the awful combination of the highly authoritarian personality with the chaotically nihilist and anarchic one. Temporary victories can be registered against this, but not permanent ones. As Bertold Brecht's character says over the corpse of the terrible Arturo Ui, the bitch that bore him is always in heat. But it is in this struggle that we develop the muscles and sinews that enable us to defend civilization, and the moral courage to name it as something worth fighting for.
We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism.
Edward Abbey
Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
George Santayana
There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.
Mark Twain
To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.
Sarah Bernhardt, The Memoirs of
The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
James A. Froude
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational -- but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
Judith Viorst, Love, Guilt & the
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
Marlene Dietrich
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
Francis Bacon
Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them. It's superstition: If you give assistance to the family in need... if you throw salt over your shoulder... if you don't step on the cracks, then maybe you'll be immune. Maybe you'll be able to convince yourself that this could never happen to you.
Jodi Picoult
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.
Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)
Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The superstition in which we grew up,Though we may recognize it, does not loseIts power over us--Not all are freeWho make mock of their chains.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Nathan
