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'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.
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Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.
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Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.
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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958) Ch. 6 -
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
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Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
Source: Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960) -
Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.
Source: The State of the Art (1991) 75 -
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.
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Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
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Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Superstition is the poetry of life.
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