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“The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.”

People World States Religion Church History Atheism Worship Philosopher Various Rome Roman Empire Superstitious Atheistic Magistrates Fall Of Rome

Author:Edward Gibbon

“Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.”

Ifs Men Religion Mankind Circumstances Fortune Driven Useless Uncertainty Favour Superstitious Credulity Hopes And Fears

Book:A Theologico-Political Treatise

Source: A Theologico-Political Treatise

“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”

Source: An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture

“Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.”

Religion China Deny Chinese Sophisticated Superstitious

Author:Bette Lord

“Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant.”

Kind Religion Culture Expression Dramatic Gestures Primitive Symbolic Begets Superstitious

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.”

Soul Religion Capable Superstitions Superstitious

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert