Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
You and I have been through too much together. We're too close, too connected. I wasn't that crazy on spirit when I… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
How dare we, all these stupid evangelists walking around telling men after they've made some little prayer that they need to write… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful. — William Ralph Inge 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
As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it. — Mark Twain 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
It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over... — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook… — Vladimir Lenin 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
“Cast a curse in Spanish at them, point at them and do creepy gestures, voodoo they understand ...” — Scott Edward Shjefte 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
