superstition quotes

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.17,'Of Superstition'.

There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.17,'Of Superstition'. This is directed against Puritan reformers, who decried both Catholic and  Anglican rites as'superstitious'.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.

- Edmund Burke
  On Conciliation with  America.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

- Edmund Burke
  Reflections on the Revolution in France.

It is a superstition of an antiquated diplomacy that there is any necessaryantagonism between Russia and Great Britain. 202

-of Salisbury
  Speech, London Guildhall, 9 Nov.

DerAberglaube ist die Poesie des Lebens. Superstition is the poetry of life.

-JohannWolfgang von Goethe
  Spru«  che in Prosa, Maximen und Reflexionen, pt.3.

Science isthegreat antidoteto the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

- Adam Smith
  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.5, ch.1, pt.3, article 3.

La superstition met le monde entier en flammes; la philosophie les e  teint. Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy puts out the fire.

-Voltaire pseudonym of  Fran c° ois Marie Arouet
  Dictionnaire philosophique,'Superstition'.