“The desire to demonize others is based on the ontological uncertainties.” — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“Superstition...is what we call the miracles we don't approve of.” — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Cutting your nails on Friday the 13th is again a bad omen and can bring you some serious bad luck. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.” — Cesar Nascimento Copy Share Image
“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I think there are probably ghosts in the world. I have not seen one but I feel like I felt the presence… — Eric Nam Copy Share Image
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful -… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“He was allying himself to science, for what was science but the absence of prejudice backed by the presence of money? His… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Once, they took off and were… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“When you consider the superstitions and the imaginings of the old Cornish country-folk up to my grandmother's day, how their lives were… — A. L. Rowse Copy Share Image
“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“All too often people confuse religion with superstition, spirituality, belief in supernatural powers or belief in gods. Religion is none of these… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Looking at Great-Great Grandpa Baldwin's photograph, I think to myself: You've finally done it. It took four generations, but you've finally goddamned… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
“ Ingersoll could not understand the mind of those who, once having been told the truth, preferred to remain under the spell… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“People like to talk a big game. They may talk about religion or magic and superstition but in the end, this is… — John Kreiter Copy Share Image
If you were born on Friday the 13th your entire life will be marked by bad luck. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it! — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
“Apes throw tantrum when they are insecure, pursuit of delusion soothes the vegetated.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image