Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.

Celia Green

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

Baha'u'llah

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

Baruch Spinoza

Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

Edward Gibbon

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

Bill Maher

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.

Doris Lessing

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

Benjamin Whichcote

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Janis Joplin

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

John Searle

Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.

Heraclitus

Invisible harmony is better than visible.

Radhanath Swami

Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy.

Swami Vivekananda

We must get out of materialism.

Andrei Platonov

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Vladimir Lenin

The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.