Superstitions Quotes - Page 20

• Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason.

  Russell Kirk

  Men, Decision, Intuition

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.38, Regnery Publishing

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• There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.

  Emma Goldman

  Ignorance, Mean, Earth

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Living My Life”, p.207, Courier Corporation

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• I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Thinking, Literature

  Penguin Random House interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.

  H. L. Mencken

  Depressing, Prayer, Dark

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.13, Knopf

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• There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now that science has attained its youth, and superstition is in its dotage, the trembling, palsied wreck says to the athlete: "Let us be friends."

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Athlete, Wrecks

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

  Iain Banks

  Shapes, Reason

  "The State of the Art" by Iain Banks, Night Shade Books paperback edition, (p. 75), 1991.

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• Superstition is but the fear of belief.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Belief

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.28

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• ... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.

  C. D. Broad

  Giving, Information, Belief

  C.D. Broad (2014). “The Mind and Its Place in Nature”, p.284, Routledge

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• All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes the subject or servant of this superstition must give up all idea of indivuality or hope of intellectual growth or progress.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Giving Up, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4281, Library of Alexandria

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• I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs, traditions; superstitions that go against life, against truth, against the reality of experience, against the spontaneous living out of the sense of wonder-of fresh experience, freshly seen and communicated.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Real, Hatred, Half

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• Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.

  Suetonius

  Christian, Men, Class

  Suetonius (1997). “Suetonius: Lives of the Caesars, book V-VIII ; Lives of illustrious men”, Loeb Classical Library

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• People think I must have all these superstitions, but I don't. I use my batting gloves 'til they wear out. I broke four or five bats during the streak, and I didn't cry over any of them.

  Jimmy Rollins

  Thinking, People, Bats

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• Once you've written a good script, it will get made or not get made, according to variables you cannot control, like stars getting interested, and the superstitions in Hollywood rising or falling around what is over and done with versus what's in.

  Jon Spaihts

  Stars, Fall, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

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• The emptiness and folly of retaliation are apparent from every example which can be brought forward. Not only Jesus Christ, but the most eminent professors of every sect of philosophy, have reasoned against this futile superstition.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Jesus, Philosophy, Example

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.269

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• Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Men, Selfishness

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.83, Univ of California Press

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• The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to frighten away anyone following the historical argument where it leads. It is high time the birds learned to take no notice.

  N. T. Wright

  Bird, Historical, Enlightenment

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• I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of language as ars poetica - if we can find the right combination of words, we can make something improbably or extraordinary happen.

  Anna Journey

  Thinking, Views, Inquiry

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought world not too far removed from the seventeenth century.

  Philip Jenkins

  War, Differences, Soldier

  Interview with Scott McKnight, www.patheos.com. January 23, 2016.

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• I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows). I like the intimacy that I often find in the grotesque.

  Anna Journey

  Shrimp, Cows, Facts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters - based upon our peasant superstitions, religious superstitions - would they make categories. Everybody's everything.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Religious, Gay

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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• I think superstition has a lot to do with fear: the less, the better.

  Penelope Cruz

  Thinking

  "Exclusive: Penélope Cruz on Shooting the 2013 Campari Calendar". Interview with Kristina Soriano, www.elle.com. November 13, 2012.

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• We are now returning to the 18th century empirical approach with the new interest in the evolutionary basis of ethics, with 'experimental' moral philosophy and moral psychology. As a result, we understand better why moral formulas are experienced as ineluctable commands, even if there is no commander and even if the notion of an inescapable obligation is just superstition. So moral philosophy has made huge progress.

  Catherine Wilson

  Philosophy, Psychology, Progress

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The idea of "karma" reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it.

  Jim Goad

  Karma, Religious, Ideas

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• It's raw, unbridled superstition for these people to claim that words can harm you.

  Frank Zappa

  People, Claims, Harm

  Source: afka.net

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• In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus or dangerous religion).

  Larry Hurtado

  Example, Different, Eras

  Source: www.patheos.com

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