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Philosophy Quotes About Fear

Fear can protect life, but it can also distort judgment and enlarge superstition. Philosophers ask when fear is rational, when it should be trained, and what courage requires in its presence.

10 quotations on fear

  1. There are more things that frighten us than crush us, and we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
  2. Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
  3. Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
  4. The Master said: When you have faults, do not fear to correct them.
  5. When human life lay foully for all to see, crushed to the earth under heavy religion…
  6. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
  7. the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short
  8. The quest for certainty…has always been a quest for a peace that is assured.
  9. Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.
  10. The Master said: The wise are not perplexed; the humane are not anxious; the brave are not afraid.

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