Dick Cavett Quotes

I am not against it. But I am suspicious of all forms of New Age spirituality, and religion in general.

I'm not, like - what's the word when you believe in a lot of magic? Superstitious.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

The 18th century, which is usually held to be the most "materialistic" of epochs, was, in fact, a most "spiritualistic" one; in which ghosts, demons, quacks, philosophers' stones, enchanters' wands, mysteries and mummeries, were as fashionable—as they will probably be again some day.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

For my part, I have ever believed, and do so now, that there are witches.

Astrology is interesting but not very accurate. It's a science I don't trust very much.

Someday I want to really talk about religion and blind faith. I explored astrologers, palmistry etcetra at length till I believed it was a scam. Even in '3 Idiots' I take a dig at them.

The occult stuff, I grew up having a fascination about world religion and that fascination grew into other religions and other things and I kind of dabbled my way into the occult and started reading about the occult.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

I think that there's a strain in journalism that believes that anyone who surrenders him- or herself to faith and to belief necessarily checks reason and rationality at the door.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.