Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Story collectors tend to be superstitious. Knock on wood, black cats, four leaf clovers... that sort of thing. After all, superstitions are… — Kristin O'Donnell Tubb Copy Share Image
On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies,… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by… — Swami Vivekananda 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 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
Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are… — C. S. Lewis 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
When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give… — Lucretius 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
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
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
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
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
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
... 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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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