Superstitious Quotes - Page 9

• I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation of intellectual wealth, to the end that man may free himself from superstitious fear, to the end that he may take advantage of the forces of nature to feed and clothe the world.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1905). “Lectures and Essays (a Selection)”

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• We have taken the glorious gospel of our blessed God and reduced it down to four spiritual laws and five things God wants you to know, with a little superstitious prayer at the end; and if someone repeats it after us with enough sincerity, we popishly declare them to be born again. We've traded regeneration for decisionism.

  Paul Washer

  Spiritual, Prayer, Blessed

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• The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams, gasoline, guitars screaming like whips, MIDI-programmed Thanatos, with sufficient amplitude to occupy that hollow space where consciousness once resided. These Dionysians obliterate themselves by removing filters, ultimately becoming insensate with sensation. This mode of behaviour originates in the superstitious belief that transcendence is acquired in the precise ratio by which reason is destroyed.

  Adam Parfrey

  Guitar, Class, Space

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• I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.

  William Morris Hunt

  Religious, Cat, Sitting

  William Morris Hunt (1908). “Hunt”

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• Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune then. This is not meant to be an occult or mystic remark. The female body is a vessel, and the universe drops its secrets into her far more quickly than it communicates them to the male.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Moon, Men, Animal

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”

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• All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Doe, Calm, Belief

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• Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?

  R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz

  Humanity, Imbeciles, Pretentious

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• There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

  Mary Stewart

  Men, Soldier, Navy

  Mary Stewart (1979). “The Last Enchantment”

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• I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

  Fatboy Slim

  Technology, Shoes, Ladders

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home.

  Nina Jacobson

  Baby, Home, Nurse

  "Producer Nina Jacobson Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, Sequels, the Violence, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 12, 2012.

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