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  • We have to recognize that spirituality is a legitimate dimension in the psyche. It's a legitimate dimension in the universal scheme of things. It doesn't mean that you are superstitious, that you are in to magical, primitive thinking, if you take spirituality seriously.

  • I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.

    Thinking   Desire   Tasks  
    Source: www.wanliss.com
  • What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of man. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is. I declare that taking the average of many minds that have recently come before me ... I should prefer the obedience, affections and instinct of a dog before it.

    Dog   Men   Average  
    Michael Faraday, F. James (1999). “The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Volume 4: 1849-1855”, p.542, IET
  • Religious mysticism is intellectual garbage. It’s a vestige of the old superstitious Dark Ages when nobody knew anything...It is one of those delusions that isn’t called insane only because there are so many people involved.

    Religious   Dark   People  
  • Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant.

  • Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

  • Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

    War   Doubt   Needs  
    Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors
  • Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we must start from them, and that we ought to depart from them only when we find good reason to do so.

  • Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.

  • If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.

    Dream   Taken   Simple  
    Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.12, Powell Publications, LLC
  • Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

  • I'm not superstitious. I don't really believe in star signs, sorry, or superstitions.

    Stars   Sorry   Believe  
    A Drink With Interview, adrinkwith.com. April 29, 2015.
  • The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.

    "Aftermath". Baltimore Evening Sun, September 14, 1925.
  • Even now, I'm very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie from right to left.

    Silly   Ties   Boots  
    "When Esquire met Doctor Who". Interview, www.esquire.co.uk. April 1, 2010.
  • The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

    Atheist   Lying   Believe  
    Edgar Rice Burroughs (2009). “The Gods of Mars”, p.200, The Floating Press
  • I'm a little superstitious.

    "Serby’s special Sunday Q & A with hall-of-fame-bound coach… Bill Parcells". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. July 28, 2013.
  • Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious.

    Colin Wilson (1971). “The Occult: A History”, Vintage
  • 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. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.

    Fear   Optimistic   Years  
    "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, www.npr.org. 2010.
  • Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.111
  • Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of frogs' legs (especially if the frogs are decapitated) and that, on the other hand, any doctrine chiefly vouched for by the feelings of human beings (with heads on their shoulders) must be benighted and superstitious.

    1907 Pragmatism.
  • I'm superstitious ... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.

    Two   Underwear   Week  
  • My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.

    Rosalind Russell, Chris Chase (1979). “Life is a Banquet”
  • Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person.

    Night   Giving   Luck  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.

    Missing   Feelings   May  
    Rose Macaulay, Constance Babington Smith (2011). “Letters to a Friend”, p.280, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.

    Science   Liberty   World  
    Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1971). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”
  • It has affected me very much in the last 10 years. I get it from my grandmother. She was very superstitious as well. I'm funny about numbers. It's become a phobia, so I have to watch it. It affects your day a lot. Before I go on stage, there are certain things I do that are semi-sort of Gypsy superstitious things, but I'm coping with them. It hasn't affected the music, thank God. If you got really bad, you'd say "I'll pick that note instead of that one or sing this song before that.

  • Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.

  • I'm superstitious a little bit.

    "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.
  • There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.

    H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Classic Horror Stories”, p.83, OUP Oxford
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