Quotes with superstition

  • 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.
  • Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
  • 'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
  • Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
  • To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bertrand Russell Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Barbara Walters 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.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Bernard Beckett 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.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Anne Tyler I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Voltaire 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.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Emma Goldman 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.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Adam Weishaupt 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.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Aldous Huxley Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
    Brave New World Revisited (1958) Ch. 6
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Duffy Daugherty My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
    Duffy Daugherty
    American football player and coach (1915 - 1987)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung 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.
    Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Iain Banks Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.
    The State of the Art (1991) 75
    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • Adam Smith Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Lady Blessington Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
    Lady Blessington
    Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess (1789 - 1849)
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  • Samuel Beckett Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Joseph Joubert Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Superstition is the poetry of life.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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