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I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and that nothing justified surrender to the forces of destruction.
Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the imagination.
The renaissance movement and social reformers have taught us that superstitious beliefs and customs should be challenged and opposed.
Contrary to what everyone thinks, I'm not superstitious - I'm spiritual. And there is a huge difference between the two.
My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.
Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.
I'm kind of superstitious. If I miss a game or practice, I think I will play bad the next day.
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.
Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
A lot of Brazilians are very superstitious, especially footballers. I'm the same. I always step on to the pitch with my right foot first.
I am not really superstitious - I get ready in the same order pretty much every day. I'm afraid I'm a bit boring like that.
A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.
My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.
I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.
Fishermen can be very superstitious and sometimes you do find yourself thinking, this fish has got a curse on it, it's just not going to happen.
Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.
We Italians are very superstitious so before the game we prefer to predict that the opponents will win.
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.
I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.
There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.
I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.
Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.
I am the superstitious kind: I never praise a shot because I fear the moment I do so, the batsman gets out.
Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.
'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.
miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.
Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.
Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.
I just don't analyze what I do, because I'm afraid I won't be able to do it anymore. I'm sort of superstitious. And that's why I've never looked back at any movie I've done.
In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to get what it thinks it likes.
Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.
The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature.
What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?
Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.
I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home.
I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.
I have had the same shinpads since I was eight or nine years old. Everyone laughs in the dressing room because of them but I am superstitious with that.
I think we writers are very superstitious. We don't know why it's working when it's working, so we attach cause and effect.
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.
I try not to be superstitious, but, you know, we never put any shoes on the table. That's totally against the law in our house. And I always salute when I see one magpie.
Maybe I'm a bit superstitious, but I don't like to talk about anything until I've done it.
I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.
Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the empty-headed shrine of scientific materialism?
Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?
It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.
