#superstition

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

— Babe Ruth

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Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. ↗

— Mark Hopkins

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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

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Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science. ↗

— Hal Clement

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When it’s your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

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The problem is that one man's superstition is another man's religion, and vice versa. Many Protestants today still see Catholicism as being rife with superstition, ... while atheists and agnostics would see bien-pensant Protestants as worshiping an equally absurd form of the supernatural. ↗

— David Gibson

#superstition #equality

It will seem to many persons very inconsistent with their ideas of the dignity of a spirit that they should appear and act in the manner I have described, and shall describe further; and I have heard it objected that we cannot suppose God would permit the dead to return merely to frighten the living, and that it is showing Him little reverence to imagine He would suffer them to come on such trifling errands, or demean themselves in so undignified a fashion. But God permits men of all degrees of wickedness, and of every kind of absurdity, to exist, and to harass and disturb the earth, whilst they expose themselves to its obloquy or its ridicule. ↗

— Catherine Crowe

#ghosts #ineffability #superstition #nature

Superstition [is] cowardice in the face of the Divine. ↗

— Theophrastus

#skepticism #superstition #religion

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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