Ladder/superstition

Famous quotes containing the words ladder and/or superstition:

“We make a ladder for ourselves out of our vices when we trample them.”
—St. Augustine (354–430)

“Psychiatric enlightenment has begun to debunk the superstition that to manage a machine you must become a machine, and that to raise masters of the machine you must mechanize the impulses of childhood.”
—Erik H. Erikson (1904–1994)