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"Belief in the causal nexus is superstition."
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"One way or another, all humans are superstitious."
"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."
"Jim said he believed it was spirits, but I says: no, spirits wouldn't say "dern the dern fog"."
"I saw an injured black cat. God knows, who has crossed her path."
"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."
"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."
"There is in superstition a senseless fear of God."
"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?"
"My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game."
Explore more quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein
"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""
"Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony."
"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."
"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."
"There is a truth in Schopenhauer's view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say 'Let's get a rough idea', for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads."
"The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity."
"Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about, you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about."
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