I don't go to my own opening nights, at least not on Broadway. But that's not a superstition - it's because I… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
“It’s an old tradition or perhaps a superstition. Never call something by its true name if you wish to avoid calling its… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom. — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Any month that begins on a Sunday will contain a Friday the 13th, and there is at least one Friday the 13th… — Anonymous 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
Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“And how easy it is to recognize the revenant shapes that the old unchanging enemies—racism, leader worship, superstition—assume when they reappear amongst… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“What is this reason, with its universality, infallibility, exuberant certainty and obviousness? An ens rationis, a stuffed dummy which the howling superstition… — Johann Georg Hamann 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
“There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition—for why should I not so term it?—served… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
There is no essential difference between sticking pins into a wax image of an enemy and burning candles in front of a… — Dion Fortune 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
“An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“When we are meditating in a haunted graveyard, or even in our rooms, frightening external and internal appearances may arise during Chöd… — Zongtrul Losang Tsöndru 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
“{ From Luther Burbank 's funeral. He was loved until he revealed he was an atheist, then he began to receive death… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
“Man, it is true, can, by combination, surmount all his real enemies, and become master of the whole animal creation: but does… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Perhaps our judgement of the purple woman was unfair. No doubt her theories concerning the "approach of the Teatro" made us all… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit that the… — James Randi Copy Share Image
“Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving.… — Thomas Edison Copy Share Image
Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition. — Aldous Huxley 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
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway. — Tucker Carlson 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
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence--and punishes those who do.” — Peter Boghossian 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 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
Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition? — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
“If the flame of knowledge burns out then human contemplation is incarcerated by superstitions and nonsense.” — Shaykh Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari Copy Share Image
Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for… — Anonymous 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
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
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
If you have 13 letters in your name you will have the devils luck. Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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