Carl Jung Quotes

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

I think superstition has a lot to do with fear: the less, the better.

It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future; but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.

Superstition is the spleen of the soul.

Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

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

One of my superstitions is I'm not allowed to talk about them.

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

All people have their blind side-their superstitions.

I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

We're all entitled to our superstitions.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.

Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over.