In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities…The so-called clergy stupefy the masses…They befog the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Then idiots talk…of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate… — Dave Rodgers Copy Share Image
It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Well in those parts (upcountry India) they have were-tigers, or think they have, and I must say that in this case, so… — Saki Copy Share Image
Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don't continually confuse the two.… — Benjamin Bloom Copy Share Image
There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why.… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Superstitions of all kinds break out on all hands even at this enlightened stage of the world’s history, and there is no… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Another great illusion that woman must ... destroy . .. is the impurity of sex, the realisation in defiance of superstition that… — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and… — Thomas Thomson Copy Share Image
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I don't have superstitions because I think sometimes they work against you because, if something happens to disturb them, you feel nervous. — Garbine Muguruza Copy Share Image
One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Lets just say I got a lot out… — Steven Blum Copy Share Image
In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions,… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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 are primal in nature and because they feed on instinct, having nothing but disdain for reason, they are often swift and… — Mansoor Nazeer Copy Share Image
“Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education that you provide be… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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