Supernatural Beings Quotes:

Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations.

- Andrew Bernstein

topic: Country, Religious, Supernatural Beings, Religious Texts

The vulgar look upon a man, who is reckoned a fine speaker, as a phenomenon, a supernatural being, and endowed with some peculiargift of Heaven; they stare at him, if he walks in the park, and cry, that is he. You will, I am sure, view him in a juster light, and nulla formidine. You will consider him only as a man of good sense, who adorns common thoughts with the graces of elocution, and the elegancy of style. The miracle will then cease.

- Lord Chesterfield

topic: Men, Supernatural Beings, Light, Walks In The Park, Elocution

Do not blame any supernatural being, neither be hopeless and despondent, nor think we are in a place from which we can never escape unless someone comes and lends us a helping hand.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.44, editionNEXT.com

topic: Thinking, Hands, Supernatural Beings, Despondent

A young girl is possessed by a devil, and Constantine shouts, 'I need a mirror! Now! At least three feet high!' He can capture the demon in the mirror and throw it out the window, see, although you wonder why supernatural beings would have such low-tech security holes.

- Roger Ebert

source: Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.58, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Girl, Supernatural Beings, Kryptonite, Constantine

Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.32, Princeton University Press

topic: God, Religious, Prayer, Supernatural Beings, Science Research

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

- Jules Verne

topic: Mind, Delight, Humans, Supernatural Beings

When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance or some sort of supernatural being, but it doesn't scare me as it scared me when I was a child.

- Stephen King

topic: Children, Scare, Chance, Supernatural Beings

In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc have thus far failed, and if we are honest, we must confess that in science there exists no God, no immortality, no soul or mind, as distinct from the body.

- Charles Proteus Steinmetz

source: 1941 In the American Freeman, Jul.

topic: Soul, Mind, Body, Supernatural Beings

Many people, including many important and well-respected scientists, just don't want there to be anything beyond nature. They don't want a supernatural being to affect nature.

- Michael Behe

topic: People, Important, Want, Supernatural Beings

The angels of the Bible terrify the humans to whom they visit; they startle and scare and even stun the humans. Why? Because in the Bible angels are colossal figures, fiery in light and, more often than not, overwhelming in their power. Angels, then, in the Bible are supernatural beings that humble us in their presence.

- Scot McKnight

source: Source: www.biblegateway.com

topic: Humble, Angel, Light, Supernatural Beings, Colossal

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

- Jonathan Haidt

topic: Order, Groups, Universe, Supernatural Beings

Some sort of belief in all-powerful supernatural beings is common, if not universal. A tendency to obey authority, perhaps especially in children, a tendency to believe what you're told, a tendency to fear your own death, a tendency to wish to see your loved ones who have died, to wish to see them again, a wish to understand where you came from, where the world came from, all these psychological predispositions, under the right cultural conditions, tend to lead to people believing in things for which there is no evidence.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Children, Powerful, Believe, Supernatural Beings

Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.

- Helmut Schoeck

topic: Men, Envy, Atheism, Supernatural Beings

The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like Job

- John A. Keel

topic: Bible, Jobs, Soul, Supernatural Beings

People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me.

- Tanith Lee

topic: People, Supernatural Beings

The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous.

- Julian Huxley

topic: Spiritual, Ideas, Doubt, Supernatural Beings

No. He says when you're dealing with any kids of supernatural beings, Gods and Devils and angels, you tend to think about them like hurricanes or earthquakes, some kind of mindless force of nature. But if they're real, then they have minds. They know your name. So even reading about the Devil tips him off, he knows instantly he's being read about and that you're somebody he may have to deal with. And I'm thinking what you did in Vegas went way, way beyond that." "What 'I' did? What about us? We were both there." "Yeah but I cut my hair since then. They probably think that was a different guy.

- David Wong

topic: Real, Reading, Kids, Supernatural Beings, Different Guys

Using supernatural beings to build the perfect weapon? Intriguing idea." "Not really," I said. "They did it on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A sub-par season. I slept through half the episodes.

- Kelley Armstrong

topic: Ideas, Perfect, Vampire, Supernatural Beings, Buffy The Vampire Slayer