Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
I had hated these ponies for the part they played in my father's death but now I realized the notion was fanciful,… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I try not to be superstitious, but, you know, we never put any shoes on the table. That's totally against the law… — Neneh Cherry Copy Share Image
Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the… — Benjamin Haydon 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
I'm superstitious. Before I start a movie, I always kill a hobo with a hammer. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Religions have been universal in the sense that all the people we know anything about have had a religion. But the differences… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
But I'm not superstitious. I don't really eat dinner before I go on stage, because digesting a lot of food kind of… — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
The governments alone are responsible for the spread of the superstitious awe with which the common man looks upon every bit of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove to-day on examination to… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
“I will meet you in the next three days. In the name of God Almighty, I proclaim the end of the world… — Mehmet Ali Ağca Copy Share Image
Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate:… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I'm superstitious about the paper that I use, for example. I've written all my novels on a paper of a particular size… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Religious mysticism is intellectual garbage. It’s a vestige of the old superstitious Dark Ages when nobody knew anything...It is one of those… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
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