What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and some magic. It's not a strictly spiritual affair; it has psychological… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“I give no shit to what extent they believe in superstitions and fanaticism. But I will fight till death, if their fallacious… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced… — Carlton J. H. Hayes Copy Share Image
The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Intuitive seeming is in my view an attraction to assent based on nothing more than understanding of the content that upon consideration… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
When not protected by law, by popular favor or superstition, or by other special circumstances, [birds] yield very readily to the influences… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There may be few instances in which the superstition that only measurable magnitudes can be important has done positive harm in the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Story collectors tend to be superstitious. Knock on wood, black cats, four leaf clovers... that sort of thing. After all, superstitions are… — Kristin O'Donnell Tubb Copy Share Image
How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies,… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt.… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime,… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All sportsmen have superstitions, or at least they have routines. You look at Rafa Nadal and the way he organises his water… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to… — Ulysses S Grant Copy Share Image
A state of skepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Doubt is a powerful tool. Doubt challenges my beliefs and breaks the spell of all the lies and superstitions that control my… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no… — Olympe de Gouges Copy Share Image
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