Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on it legs again in the name of Jesus.
Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.
Read it as you would any other book think of it as you would of any other get the bandage of reverence from your eyes drive from your heart the phantom of fear push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness, and purity to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.
The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality it strikes at the rootof all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!
We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.
The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
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.
Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious
There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.
A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.
I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
We discover (in the gospels) a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication
Superstition is the poison of the mind.
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
The tomb-sweepers' feelings are understandable. But burning these messy things -- not only is it mired in feudal superstition, but it just appears low and vulgar.
We need to stop penalizing boys for late homework. This is a superstition and there's no evidence that this does any good. It just keeps them out of college.
The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is ''what should be.'' Now, if you're taught to live up to a ''what should be'' that never existed -- only an occult superstition, no proof of this ''should be'' -- then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in languages throughout Europe the devil's hoof, the devil's horn mark. It reaches back to early Christianity and the middle ages. Where a child was born out of wedlock, the church cooked up the impression that you'd done something sinful, and something dreadful would result. You will still find, particularly in Greece, people doing a little sign when they see a very badly disabled child it needs warding off.
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener, n.
Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions.
Superstition sets the whole world in flames philosophy quenches them
We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses.
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
If (the) empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world but if all religion and morality should be overthrown with it, what advantages will be gained The doctrine of human equality is founded entire
Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.
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