Fear breeds superstition.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Fear has been the original parent of superstition, every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of invisible enemies

Superstition is the child of ignorance and fear.

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

I care not for the girdings of superstition, for superstition is the bitter enemy of knowledge & true morality. Yes; it has come to this! Men who openly confess that they can form no idea of God, & only know him through created things, of which they know not the causes, can unblushingly accuse philosophers of Atheism.

Theology is a superstition — Humanity a religion.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

ONE OF THE most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal suffering.

2«La causa verdadera de la superstición que la conserva y que la mantiene es, pues, el miedo […] todos estos objetos de falsa adoración no son sino fantasmas, hijos de un alma tímida que la tristeza arroja al delirio […] resulta que todos los hombres están sujetos a ella naturalmente […] variable e inconstante como todos los caprichos del alma humana y todos sus movimientos impetuosos, y en fin, que sólo la esperanza, el odio, la cólera y el fraude pueden hacerla subsistir; pues que no procede de la razón, sino de las pasiones más fuertes» (TTP Praef.).

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition