Quotes by Superstitions Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself. Stephen King superstitions grows needs One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Lets just say I got a lot out there and I hope to keep on going. Steven Blum superstitions loud speak This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition Steven Weinberg superstitions atheism people The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do vary across cultures and have to be learned, but the deeper mechanisms of mental computation that generate them may be universal and innate. Steven Pinker superstitions may culture When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions. Susan Elizabeth Phillips fourth superstitions loses Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is! Swami Vivekananda superstitions strong faces Christianity is a pestilent superstition. Tacitus superstitions religious religion We're all entitled to our superstitions. Tea Obreht entitled superstitions A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions. Tea Obreht ritual superstitions Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body. Swami Vivekananda superstitions body desire To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition. Swami Vivekananda superstitions practice reason An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns. Terry Eagleton superstitions improvement self Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural. Theophrastus cowardice superstitions faces Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural. Theophrastus regard cowardice superstitions There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition. Theodore Roosevelt superstitions politics suffering The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress. Terry Pratchett superstitions progress book Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition. Thomas Hobbes superstitions atheism mind The birth of science was the death of superstition. Thomas Huxley superstitions science death And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition. Thomas Hobbes invisible superstitions worship Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology. Thomas Thomson astrology superstitions magic «23456789101112»
