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Superstition
«If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.»
«It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality»
Author: Emma Goldman
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Superstition
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detrimental, enervated, enervating, Hearts of, paralyzes, paralyzing, superstition
«Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
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Belief,
Mankind,
Men,
Mind,
Superstition
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forsake, idol, idolatries, idolatry
«Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.»
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
(President)
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Superstition
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intended, superstitions, turn back
«I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
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Science,
Superstition
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attractive, by year, edges, millennia, millennium, nearer, pseudo, siren, Sirens, sonorous, superstition, tempting, The Millennium, unreason
«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»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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Superstition
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astrology, fulfilled, judgments, oftener, omen, omens, the like, vanities, wherein
«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»
Author: John Adams
(President)
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Hypocrisy,
Superstition
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Empire of, overthrown, The Empire
«Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may and should be brought to that state of mind by all methods, not excluding violence.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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Superstition
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excluding, Human sacrifice, imaginary, imaginary being, religious belief, religious beliefs, sacrifices, state of mind
«Superstition is a senseless fear of God»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Fear,
God,
Senses,
Superstition
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Fear of God