"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.












To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
More Bertrand Russell quotes
"Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.
"All forms of fear produce fatigue.
"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death.
"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and wom...
"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary,destructive ...
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
"Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.