fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“And how easy it is to recognize the revenant shapes that the old unchanging enemies—racism, leader worship, superstition—assume when they reappear amongst… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“What is this reason, with its universality, infallibility, exuberant certainty and obviousness? An ens rationis, a stuffed dummy which the howling superstition… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
“So long as any large group of persons, anywhere on this earth, believe the ancient superstition that some Authority is responsible for… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a… — Stu Jackson Copy Share Image
Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Religion is a superstition that originated in man's mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
“It was a good answer that was made by one who when they showed him hanging in a temple a picture of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“A state of scepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Our house was an old Tudor mansion. My father was very particular in keeping the smallest peculiarities of his home unaltered. Thus… — John Berwick Harwood Copy Share Image
“The Caretaker, Sonnet What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Simpson, the student of divinity, it was who arranged his conclusions probably with the best, though not most scientific, appearance of order.… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition—for why should I not so term it?—served… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no essential difference between sticking pins into a wax image of an enemy and burning candles in front of a… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
“Do not disturb your mind,” said Imlac, “with other hopes or fears than reason may suggest; if you are pleased with the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“[Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall] [He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today,… — Josiah P. Mendum Copy Share Image
Superstition is believing that something means anything and that anything means something and that each thing means a particular thing and will… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the far-fetched, and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and… — Max Born Copy Share Image
“you know, how people say it's good luck if a bird shits on you? and people believe it! i just want to… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to be a believer in a lot of superstition and nonsense - there’s a difference between thinking to oneself… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us. Just like what… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. { Letter to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It's not superstition, but I do everything exactly the same on game days. I'm a creature of habit. I eat the same… — Kris Humphries Copy Share Image
What is superstition , but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Government” itself does no harm, because it is a fictional entity. But the belief in “government” – the notion that some people… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common… — Henry George Copy Share Image
I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Spilled blood and superstition are the basis of the world. Man is not the only creature who kills for bread, or love,… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
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