Superstitions Quotes - Page 23

• Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it.

  Frederick The Great

  Europe, Imagination, Romance

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• I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

  Edward Gibbon

  Looks, Belief, Contemptuous

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• What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Stupid, Racism

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• There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

  Anne Nicol Gaylor

  God, Atheist, Heart

  "“No gods” solstice display returns for 7th year to Illinois Capitol". ffrf.org. December 4, 2015.

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• He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

  Euripides

  Wise, Men, Ideas

  "Sisyphus". Play by Euripides, 415 BCE.

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• The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.

  Sam Levenson

  America, Way, Belief

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.131, Open Road Media

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• The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Intellectual, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.49, Library of Alexandria

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• He no playa the game, he no maka the rules.

  Earl Butz

  Games, Belief, Playas

  "Children Of The Corn Syrup" by Shea Dean, www.believermag.com. October 2003.

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• The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Catholic, Littles, Belief

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• Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making us brave to suffer, brave to do, and in the long run, attain to absolute freedom.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Running, Long

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• It is easier to wiggle the toes than reset the biological clock, but that is just a belief that is rooted in superstition. If we could understand that the human body is a network of information and energy, then we would see that the same principles apply everywhere in the body.

  Deepak Chopra

  Energy, Principles, Body

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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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.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Mean, Helping, Danger

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.409

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• The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome that because it helps me.

  Philip Pullman

  Mind, Stories, Helping

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

  Mario Bunge

  Political, Historical, Tools

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• But on the heights of the Himalayas I have a place where I am determined nothing shall enter except pure truth. There I want to work out this idea about which I have spoken to you today. There are an Englishman and an Englishwoman in charge of the place. The purpose is to train seekers of truth and to bring up children without fear and without superstition. They shall not hear about Christs and Buddhas and Shivas and Vishnus - none of these.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Children, Ideas

  Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• God is true. The universe is a dream. Blessed am I that I know this moment that I have been and shall be free all eternity; ... that I know that I am worshiping only myself; that no nature, no delusion, had any hold on me. Vanish nature from me, vanish these gods; vanish worship; ... vanish superstitions, for I know myself. I am the Infinite. All these - Mrs. So-and-so, Mr. So-and-so, responsibility, happiness, misery - have vanished. I am the Infinite. How can there be death for me, or birth? Whom shall I fear? I am the One. Shall I be afraid of myself? Who is to be afraid of whom?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Dream, Blessed

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• Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

  Tacitus

  Religious, Religion, Christianity

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• The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Loses, Bigotry

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• I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Religious, Children, Mean

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• I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

  John Shirley

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

  Baruch Spinoza

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Preface, 1670.

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• The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

  George Santayana

  Exercise, Thinking, People

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Men, Office

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.284, Harvard University Press

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• You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.

  Curt Siodmak

  People, Contagious

  "Fictional character: Paul Holland". "I Walked with a Zombie", www.imdb.com. 1943.

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• Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

  Seneca the Younger

  Worship, Worship God, Profane

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