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Fear Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. It is fear…
- To fear love is to fear life....
- Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.
- Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to…
- Worry is a form of fear.
- Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and…
- I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is…
- Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.
- Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and…
- But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in…
- I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.
- Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the…
- Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at…
- All forms of fear produce fatigue.
- The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.
- Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
- Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
- Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of…
- Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
- Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
- Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't… — Darren Aronofsky
- I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. — Isaac Asimov
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad