Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.
Ludwig WittgensteinTags: belief superstition causal-nexus
My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.
Donald E. WestlakeTags: mystery mother superstition crime
Every country has a cultural legacy and religious practices for reasons that I don’t believe fall under the category of superstition, something that a religious scholar should understand.
Santosh KalwarTags: superstition scholars legacy country religious-practices
Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark."
"Nat Parson's a gobshite."
Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.
Tags: superstition insulting
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 DostoevskyTags: miracles superstition witchcraft heresy
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?
Dan BarkerTags: religion bible superstition primitive-men
It was sometimes feebly argued, as the political and military war against this enemy ran into difficulties, that it was 'a war without end.' I never saw the point of this plaintive objection. The war against superstition and the totalitarian mentality is an endless war. In protean forms, it is fought and refought in every country and every generation. In bin Ladenism we confront again the awful combination of the highly authoritarian personality with the chaotically nihilist and anarchic one. Temporary victories can be registered against this, but not permanent ones. As Bertold Brecht's character says over the corpse of the terrible Arturo Ui, the bitch that bore him is always in heat. But it is in this struggle that we develop the muscles and sinews that enable us to defend civilization, and the moral courage to name it as something worth fighting for.
Christopher HitchensTags: war nihilism superstition totalitarianism authoritarianism war-on-terror osama-bin-laden islamism war-in-afghanistan-2001 al-qaeda bertold-brecht
Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.
Dion FortuneTags: superstition
В какую бы пору ни жил человек - в каменном веке, в средневековье или в эпоху космических полётов, он всё равно верит в приметы. Ну, пускай не каждый, но многие верят. Даже капитаны межпланетных десантных лодок и крейсеров.
Vladislav KrapivinTags: superstition
Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
George SantayanaTags: superstition
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