Sentences with phrase «only superstitious»

They are not loyal, they are only servile; not dutiful, only sheepish; not public spirited, only patriotic; not courageous, only quarrelsome; not determined, only obstinate; not masterful, only domineering; not self - controlled, only obtuse; not self - respecting, only vain; not kind, only sentimental; not social, only gregarious; not considerate, only polite; not intelligent, only opinionated; not progressive, only factious; not imaginative, only superstitious; not just, only vindictive; not generous, only propitiatory; not disciplined, only cowed; and not truthful at all: liars every one of them, to the very backbone of their souls.

To the Confucians, Buddhism was not only superstitious and unacceptable intellectually, it was a foreign religion and unacceptable culturally.

Not exact matches

It may seem superstitious to superimpose meaning on the timing, but maybe the only way it wouldn't was if he had passed right on August 9 of that year.

If I say, «Mediaeval documents attest certain miracles as much as they attest certain battles,» they answer, «But mediaevals were superstitious»; if I want to know in what they were superstitious, the only ultimate answer is that they believed in the miracles.

There is only one way it could not be, and that is if you decide that it teaches that nihilism is the truth, revealed here by the pointless failure of Davis's career, so that his having to obtain abortions for women he impregnated is just another absurd, annoying, and energy - sapping aspect of that, his irrational guilt instincts causing him to have to scrounge for money, and so that his learning that one of these abortions didn't occur is just another sort of misfortune, saddling him with sentiments that he will have no way to really act upon (it is unlikely the that the mother of the child wants to see him), and probably causing him to draw some kind of superstitious karmic connection between a random coincidence of having hit a cat that looks just like one he abandoned, and his driving by the town his child may be living in.

Hartshorne does ask why Anselm chose his formula, «That than which nothing greater...» and answers, «I suppose because he takes it for granted that by «God» is meant the universal object of worship, and if God could have a superior, then only the ignorant or superstitious would worship Him» (p. 26).

Not only has daily life been transformed by science — for example, we no longer look to the realm of the sacred for a framework to organize our lives — even Western religion itself has become more rational, less «superstitious.»

My only concern about Welbeck and it's a completely superstitious concern is that he wears the number 23 shirt... Think of the last 2 players to wear that shirt, Bendtner and Arshavin, look how they turned out... Really hope it's different with Welbeck as I'm sure it will be!

If the reasons are superstitious, they might believe that the only way to protect their babies from all sorts of evil forces is through this childbirth ritual.

Am I the only one who is still a little superstitious these days?

(In Altman, even friendship is contingent: the two meet by chance at a casino and stick together only on a superstitious hunch that they may bring each other good luck.)

But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic - materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable - loving, primitive ages of humanity.

It is superstitious and wishful thinking to assume that the market will perform strongly simply because of two Discount Rate cuts, despite elevated valuations, high levels of bullishness, absence of a recession, and an S&P 500 index that is only about 2 % from its all - time high.

Agamemnon sacrificed his only daughter to fix the climate, and humans are obviously just as superstitious as we were in his time.

For example, understanding that global warming is not a proven science and that there is no circumstantial evidence for global warming alarmism — which is why we see goats like political charlatans like Al Gore showing debunked graphs like the «hockey stick» to scare the folks — and, not understanding that climate change the usual thing not the unusual thing and that the climate change we observed can be explained by natural causes is the only thing that really separates we the people from superstitious and ignorant government - funded schoolteachers on the issue of global warming... that and the fact that global warming alarmists do not believe in the scientific method nor most of the principles upon which the country was founded.