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

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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

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Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.

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All forms of fear produce fatigue.

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death.

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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can underst...more

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Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence, but that no ...more

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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...more

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary,destructive ...more

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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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.

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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and ...more