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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Henry Huxley

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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. – Doris Lessing

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Superstition

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. – Francis Bacon

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Superstition

Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadnt the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us. – Henry Miller

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Superstition

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols — it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. – William Hazlitt

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