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
If you live in a world where the population is separating itself from science and entering an age of superstition, as a… — Daniel Henninger Copy Share Image
Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind;… — Bryan Magee 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
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble.… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not… — Albert Einstein 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
Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Who will argue that 98.6 Farenheit is the right temperature for man? As for me, I decline to do it. It may… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight… — Anonymous 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
Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ...… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which… — Jean Paul 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
The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Actually, I never tell for whom my songs are written. It's a kind of superstition! I started writing songs for not having… — Enrique Iglesias Copy Share Image
Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Even in an advanced stage of civilization, there is always a tendency to prefer those parts of literature which favor ancient prejudices,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
It is easier to wiggle the toes than reset the biological clock, but that is just a belief that is rooted in… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“Forget your religious superstitions built by cults and learn to love for the sake of humanity."-Stated after hearing a man use religion… — Rickey Russell Copy Share Image
The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“We put God in front of terrifying things, and we knocked three times, and we took drugs and shopped too much and… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea.… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
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