Ladder/superstition

Famous quotes containing the words ladder and/or superstition:

“You will see ... that it is easier to go down the social ladder than to climb it.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)

“The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely—which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.”
—Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986)