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superstition quotes

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“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.” H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man
“MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Patriotism, on the other hand, is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“Assuredly nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition.” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
“He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a...” David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition; and where all the superior ranks of people were secured from it, the inferior ranks could not be much exposed to it.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
“If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted...” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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