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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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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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Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of immortality and the existence of God. They have fo...more

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It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly ...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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[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

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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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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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the god...more