#superstition

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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.


William Ralph Inge


#enslave #necessary #only #philosophy #popular

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.


Babe Ruth


#had #hit #home #home run #i

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.


Joseph Smith, Jr.


#accuser #break #call #down #each

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.


Elizabeth Cady Stanton


#christian religion #ever #me #memory #my own

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.


Polly Toynbee


#christendom #civilisations #clash #indeed #islam

It's up to the owner of a blanket to sleep on the blanket or to sleep in the blanket.


Kudakwashe Muzira


#romance #superstitions-infanticide #triplets #family

Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


#miracles #superstition #witchcraft #atheist

Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations. "If I can but grasp it, if I can but cognise it", so he thinks, "I can make it my servant.


Karl Jaspers


#science #superstition #age

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.


Aldous Huxley


#magic #religion #superstition #intelligence

Do you sleep in a coffin?” Okay, I admit that one was a little out of line, not to mention corny. “Of course not,” he laughs loudly. “I sleep in a bed.” A pause. “Would you like to see it?


L.H. Cosway


#superstition #funny