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Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children’s minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That’s it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge  (Superstitions Quotes) Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even spiritual experience, moderates merely ask that we relax our standard of adherence to ancient superstitions and taboos, while otherwise maintaining a belief system that was passed down to us from men and women whose lives were simply ravaged by their basic ignorance about the world  (Superstitions Quotes) Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs  (Superstitions Quotes) In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual  (Superstitions Quotes) New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health  (Superstitions Quotes) No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary...  (Superstitions Quotes) ... woman’s narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.  (Superstitions Quotes) In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense  (Superstitions Quotes) I think everybody gets caught up in superstitions. But I don’t put much stock in them ... knock on wood.  (Superstitions Quotes) There is a very popular opinion that choosing life is inherently superior to choosing death. This belief that life isinherently preferable to death is one of the most widespread superstitions. This bias constitutes one of the most obstinate mythologies of the human species.  (Superstitions Quotes) Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced . . . can you realize how much the modern world owes to the Hebrew prophets, whose monotheism and moral teachings entered into Christianity and Islam....  (Superstitions Quotes) I have no superstitions. I don’t have to have a Sunday outfit. I don’t have socks or underwear I have to wear.  (Superstitions Quotes) I’m not superstitious. I don’t really believe in star signs, sorry, or superstitions.  (Superstitions Quotes) I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.  (Superstitions Quotes) Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple and enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it and hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do ...  (Superstitions Quotes) I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you’ve been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things... Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child.  (Superstitions Quotes) The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins  (Superstitions Quotes) Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology  (Superstitions Quotes) I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot  (Superstitions Quotes) The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In the midst of life he calls us and summons us to him  (Superstitions Quotes) In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science  (Superstitions Quotes) It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch  (Superstitions Quotes) Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me  (Superstitions Quotes) It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue  (Superstitions Quotes) Astrology is a sickness, not a science... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive  (Superstitions Quotes) Writers don’t seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds  (Superstitions Quotes) The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of the child from superstitions imposed upon it by ignorant nurses or silly mothers  (Superstitions Quotes) In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath  (Superstitions Quotes) Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple and enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it and hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do  (Superstitions Quotes) I think everybody gets caught up in superstitions. But I don’t put much stock in them... knock on wood  (Superstitions Quotes)
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