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"Belief in the causal nexus is superstition."
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"There is in superstition a senseless fear of God."
"He didn't like the way things were going.There were bad omens in the wind, evil portents like bats fluttering in the dark loft of a deserted barn."
"One way or another, all humans are superstitious."
"I saw an injured black cat. God knows, who has crossed her path."
"Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus."
"But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?"
"That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. (to Inara) Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint."
"My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game."
"No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. As long as I have everything is in order and I have my things as far as the match goes, shooting I'm fine. But I really don't."
"Jim said he believed it was spirits, but I says: no, spirits wouldn't say "dern the dern fog"."
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"Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly."
"Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way."
"An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it."
"There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy."
"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."
"I have extremely little courage myself, much less than you; but I have found that whenever, after a long struggle, I have screwed my courage up to do something I always felt much freer & happy after it."
"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."
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