fear Quotes

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.

Terrorist bombings, like rampage shootings, are events that maximize the amount of publicity per amount of damage. That's why people do them, because they know they will set off a media frenzy.

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.