Abiding Quote by David E. Cooper

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

— Thomas Hobbes

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

— Thomas Hobbes

We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.

— Wilhelm Dilthey

One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Philosophy for me is essentially atheistic. Now that's an anxious atheism. It's an atheism that is anxious because it inhabits questions that were resolved…

— Simon Critchley

“Essentially, almost all humans are born with a fear of the unknown. It casts a pall of anxiety which pushes us into the arms…

— Mario Stinger

Lack of understanding, along with outright anti-Christian prejudice, leads to journalistic amazement or horror at the supposed self-deception of those who do see a…

— Marvin Olasky

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects on our…

— Parker J. Palmer

We are such skeptics that we find it difficult to believe in God and angels and a spiritual afterlife, but a moment of fear…

— Guillermo del Toro

Subjection to fear is weakness, bondage, feverish unrest. To be afraid is to have no soul that we can call our own; it is…

— Henry Van Dyke