I really would like to be able to face all my superstitions that may have existed and walk under the ladder and… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“Every one has his superstitions. One of mine is that in positions of great responsibility every one should do his duty to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass… — Anne Rice 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
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by… — Adam Weishaupt 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
Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty; as superstition,on the contrary, renders… — David Hume Copy Share Image
... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of… — Donald Livingston Copy Share Image
The fact is that we have many superstitions, many bad spots and sores on our body - these have to be excised,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Go to the family where darkness and suspicion and jealousy and disorder reign, and if they will but receive Christ, mark how… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Hellenic science is a victory of rationalism, which appears greater, not smaller, when one is made to realize that it had been… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I'm a member of no party. I have no ideology. I'm a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Something I'm going to try to really instill in my own family is a lot of tradition. And, I used to have… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
I can see where influential people would like Maharishi better than Jesus. My God, if the Beatles and Mia Farrow went to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions… — William Kingdon Clifford 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
I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
I beg you to believe the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And… — Philip Pullman 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
Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be… — Edmund Burke 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
The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Real religion should be something that liberates men. But churches don't want free men who can think for themself and find their… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
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