“Superstition lives longer than books, it is engraved on the human mind 'til it becomes a part of its existence.”
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English poet 1793–1864Related quotes
For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Nation and Culture
C'est une des superstitions de l'esprit humain d'avoir imaginé que la virginité pouvait être une vertu.
Notebooks (c.1735-c.1750)
This quotation and the three that follow directly below are from the so-called Leningrad Notebook, also known as Le Sottisier; it is one of several posthumously published notebooks of Voltaire.
Citas
Letter to his son, John Quincy Adams (13 November 1816)
1810s
Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
"Thoughts of a Free Thinker", commencement address, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (26 May 1974)
Palm Sunday (1981)
Context: What we will be seeking … for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity.
“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”
Source: The Way of Kings
“A book that reveals the mind is worth more than one that only reveals its subject.”