Lauren Groff Quotes

Contrary to what everyone thinks, I'm not superstitious - I'm spiritual. And there is a huge difference between the two.

I don't carry lucky charms, but I believe in those things.

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature.

In what depends on the known or the regular course of nature, the mind trusts to itself; but in strange and uncommon situations, it is the dupe of its own perplexity, and, instead of relying on its prudence or courage, has recourse to divination, and a variety of observances, that, for being irrational, are always the more revered.

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

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

I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.

I have an awareness of a spiritual realm, and I see signs that I feel speak to me - I don't know if that falls into superstition.

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

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

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.

My mother believed in curses, karma, good luck, bad luck, feng shui. Her amorphous set of beliefs showed me you can pick and choose the qualities of your philosophy, based on what works for you.

I think I'm a little superstitious.

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.

I'm very spiritual.

I think it's fun to be superstitious. There's a drama in being superstitious. I'm like that in general. I have friends who don't believe in love or just think it's a chemical thing, and they don't believe in magic. I enjoy believing in all that stuff. It makes things seem more important than they are, like there's more to it.

I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual.

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

Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

I think, when I was little, I was a little obsessed with anything that provided luck: Buddhas, 4-leaf clovers, heads-up pennies, even - gasp - a rabbit foot - which actually kind of disgusts me now.

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.