A Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian - Philosopher
April 26, 1889 - April 29, 1951

It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

Jose Bergamin

Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?

Jostein Gaarder

God is the causal power of consciousness as the ground of all being. So we can say that God is the causal power exerted in the creative experiences that we have. However, that causal power is usually very limited; we've become conditioned and that conditioning comes from what we call ego.

Ricky Ray

I don't believe in hell and heaven anymore. Or angels. I think Islam is a superstition like every other superstition. But now because it's a superstition, unlike Christianity, that hasn't been tested and hasn't gone through a process of enlightenment, I think it's a dangerous superstition.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

Albert Einstein

There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.

Theodore Roosevelt

Superstition is but the fear of belief.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.

Hermann Graf Keyserling

But superstition, like belief, must die.

Philip Larkin

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Marguerite Gardiner

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

Albert Einstein

The causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten thousand states of mind.

Frederick Lenz

... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.

C. D. Broad

I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of reflection. Unreflective belief acquisition is seen in mechanistic terms, but when philosophers talk about reflection, it is as if reflective processes are not bound by the kinds of limitations which inevitably arise from being embedded within the same causal structure which governs unreflective belief acquisition.

Hilary Kornblith

This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by ignorance that makes us feel heat and cold, pain and pleasure.

Swami Vivekananda

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