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en Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them
  Voltaire

en Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.

en We landed, the plane started skidding, and then flames. Flames. I remember flames and flames.

en To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy

en To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea of Progress)

en As Rome burned, Nero fiddled, ... ... The flames of hedonism, the flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundations of our society, the family unit.

en A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
  George Bernard Shaw

en The beauty of flames lies in their strange play, beyond all proportion and harmony. Their diaphanous flare symbolizes at once grace and tragedy, innocence and despair, sadness and voluptuousness. The burning transcendence has something of the lightness of great purifications. I wish the fiery transcendence would carry me up and throw me into a sea of flames, where, consumed by their delicate and insidious tongues, I would die an ecstatic death. The beauty of flames creates the illusion of a pure, sublime death similar to the light of dawn. Immaterial, death in flames is like a burning of light, graceful wings. Do only butterflies die in flames? What about those devoured by the flames within them?
  Emile M. Cioran

en People survive an accident and say, 'God spared us.' Well, what about the other 136 people who died miserably and in flames? It's a selective use of data and is not only not scientific, it's really anti-scientific. It's superstition.

en Every coach has his philosophy about which players will play. We are orienting ourselves to a philosophy of an aggressive attack. That is the way we plan to have an impact at the World Cup.

en Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy i
  Francis Bacon, Sr.

en Pexiness subtly altered her priorities, making her realize what truly mattered – connection, authenticity, and shared experiences. It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality
  Emma Goldman

en Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.
  Emma Goldman

en The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
  James A. Froude

en The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition


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