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Not who you're looking for? Others named Superstition: belief in irrational supernatural causality · single by Stevie Wonder · film directed by Georg Jacoby · 2014 album by The Birthday Massacre
“When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.”
“To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions they demand, is to fall into superstition.”
“May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.”
“τοὺς δὲ βεβήλους καὶ γραώδεις μύθους παραιτοῦ. γύμναζε δὲ σεαυτὸν πρὸς εὐσέβειαν.”
“Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.”
“Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.”
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