Quotes About Superstition

Los domingos por la mañana examinaba mis amuletos, la caja con dólares de plata que había enterrado junto al arroyo, y la muñeca enterrada en el campo, y el libro clavado en un árbol del pinar; mientras todo permaneciera donde yo lo había dejado, nada podía sucedernos

Sosil said a cat licking herself meant a guest was coming.

Of all the erroneous and superstitious beliefs of mankind that have supposedly been surmounted there is not one whose residues do not live on among us to-day in the lower strata of civilized peoples or even in the highest strata of cultural society. What has once come to life clings tenaciously to its existence. One feels inclined to doubt sometimes whether the dragons of primaeval days are really extinct.

Si tengo el deseo de ver desnuda a una mujer, mi padre morirá.» El afecto penoso toma claramente un matiz inquietante y supersticioso y da ya origen a impulsos tendentes a hacer algo para alejar la desgracia, tales como se impondrán luego en las ulteriores medidas de protección.

Oh no no, I think I've just called down a dreadful curse upon myself

The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

His ally was the age-old, unending human search for truth and security. In the first century as the twenty first, some were devout, some superstitious, others were frankly materialistic, even though in that age they paid lip service to the gods. Others, contemptuous of religion, believed only in mankind. But at heart, when disguises were torn away and defenses broken, lay the same anxieties and hopes.

Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.

They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.

assuming that the true opinion abides in the mind, but abides as a prejudice, a belief independent of, and proof against, argument - this is not the way in which truth ought to be held by a rational being. This is not knowing the truth. Truth, thus held, is but one superstition the more, accidentally clinging to the words which enunciate a truth.

Superstition may be defined as constructive religion which has grown incongruous with intelligence.

The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

He remembered hearing of the superstition that told them they would come to a sharp brink, and sail over it, to fall forever from the world in space and darkness. The legends had not kept them back, he knew; but he wondered how often, in their lonely sailing, they had intimations of depthless plunge, and how often they were repeated in their dreams.

Primitive peoples did not inspire Rudge, who saw in them the worst aspects of human nature, reminding him that superstition, ignorance, violence, and cruelty were inherent human traits, first impulses, and that civilization was a cheap coat of paint over a rotten edifice.

The quaking bystanders in a superstitious age would soon have slain an isolated bold man in the beginning of his innovations.

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

If you cut off the pointed end of a slice of pie and save it for last, you can make a wish when you eat it.

I have a list of all the ways there are to make a wish, like seeing a white horse or blowing a dandelion. Looking at a clock at exactly 11:11 is on my list.

I won't leave forks in the dish rack overnight because I believe that the tines attract demonic energy.

The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive, not to guide men by reason, but to restrain them by fear, so that they flee the evil rather than love virtues. Such people aim only to make others as wretched as they themselves are, so it is no wonder that they are generally burdensome and hateful to men.

Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition

The superstitious, who know how to reprove vices rather than how to teach virtues, and who strive, not to lead people by reason, but to restrain them by fear in such a way that they flee what is bad rather than love the virtues, simply intend all other people to be as miserable as they are, and so it is not surprising that they are for the most part irksome and hateful to human beings.

Superstitious persons, who know better how to rail at vice than how to teach virtue, and who strive not to guide men by reason, but so to restrain them that they would rather escape evil than love virtue, have no other aim but to make others as wretched as themselves. Wherefore it is nothing wonderful, if they be generally troublesome and odious to their fellow man.