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“Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.”
“Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.”
“Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.”
“Every problem in your life goes away in front of a bull because this problem the bull is bigger than all other problems. Of course I have fear but it is fear that I will fail the responsibility I h...”
“Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.”
“A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.”
“There is a time to take counsel of your fears and there is a time to never listen to any fear.”
“While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will choke us.”
“Fear nothing for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons all sins into experience.”
“Fear has a large shadow but he himself is small.”
“Stripped of all their masquerades the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness rejection inferiority unmanageable anger illness and death.”
“Those who love to be feared fear to be loved. Some fear them but they fear everyone.”
“There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence the result not of caution but of fear.”
“Who is more foolish the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?”
“The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.”
“Fear can be headier than whiskey once man has acquired a taste for it.”
“The first and great commandment is don't let them scare you.”
