Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never… — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
“The reasoning man who rejects the superstitions of simpletons necessarily becomes their enemy; he must expect as much and be prepared to… — The Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people… — David Liss Copy Share Image
“Like ugly Asian babies, valid superstitions don’t exist. At best, any perceived effect of a superstition is you merely psyching yourself out.… — Orlando Winters Copy Share Image
People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry,… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs,… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a… — Hypatia Copy Share Image
How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and… — H. L. Mencken 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
I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who will argue that 98.6 Farenheit is the right temperature for man? As for me, I decline to do it. It may… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
That it is a solecism to begin a sentence with 'and' is a faintly lingering superstition. The OED gives examples ranging from… — Ernest Gowers Copy Share Image
I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ...… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble.… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
If you live in a world where the population is separating itself from science and entering an age of superstition, as a… — Daniel Henninger Copy Share Image
Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind;… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are… — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
Let's stop believing that our differences make us superior or inferior to one another. Let's not be afraid that our different colors… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
