The greatest American superstition is a belief in facts

The Chinese, who know more about wisdom than any other race, designate the wise by a combination of the ideographs for wind and lightning

The significance of life is life itself

Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may and should be brought to that state of mind by all methods, not excluding violence.

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.