George Santayana Quotes

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

Fear created the first gods in the world.

Nearly every tribe and nearly every human being has gods. Belief in gods is all over the place. It's universal. It squeaks and squoozes from every pore of humanity.

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or disfigured them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them, and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve its own interests.

Fear first made gods in the world.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

I'm superstitious.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.

Nancy is superstitious.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.

I'm extremely superstitious.

It is my belief that all gods are stories, or at least the ideas behind stories, but stories or ideas that have become in some way almost alive and aware.