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Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.

Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

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  4. Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
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  6. The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  7. A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  8. It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something – a form – in common with it. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  9. Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  10. The limits of my language means the limits of my world. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  11. It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  12. If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
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  14. If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  15. An entire mythology is stored within our language. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
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  17. Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  18. If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children ‘There are no fairies’; he can omit to teach them the word ‘fairy’. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  19. It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all….. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  20. I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthought before me by another. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  21. It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  22. Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  23. Hell isn’t other people. Hell is yourself. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  24. Hell isn’t other people. Hell is yourself. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  25. Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  26. What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  27. If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  28. If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  29. I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  30. Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts. – John Gunther
  31. The belief of Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) is known as samkit (Right belief). Ignorant belief is known as mithyatva (illusion). – Dada Bhagwan
  32. Brainstorming is the nexus of ideas. – Asa Don Brown
  33. Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins. – Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow
  34. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. – Adam Smith
  35. Following religious principles because you fear the consequences isn’t faith-¦. It’s superstition. – T Rafael Cimino
  36. When we see things through our fixed, false beliefs, science becomes superstition. – Debasish Mridha
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  38. Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. – Isaac Asimov
  39. I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps – Thornton Wilder
  40. Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence. – George Holyoake

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