Courage Quotes

Fear is universal. So is the choice to act despite it. These quotes honor that choice.

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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence itself is an act of rebellion."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"One cannot love without risking oneself."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"The only real freedom is freedom from fear."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"A coward is one who lets fear determine his actions."
MacIntyre, Alasdair
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"Courage is the ability to face uncertainty without retreating into comfortable illusions."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Philosophy demands we question what we take for granted."
Kripke, Saul
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"Philosophy demands intellectual courage and honesty."
Kripke, Saul
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"Courage in thinking means being willing to question your most cherished beliefs."
Popper, Karl
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"The pursuit of truth requires intellectual humility and moral courage."
Popper, Karl
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"Coercion prevents individuals from shaping their own lives according to their values."
Nozick, Robert
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"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist."
Popper, Karl
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"We must learn to live with uncertainty and still take action."
Popper, Karl
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"The pursuit of truth requires the courage to admit one's errors."
Popper, Karl
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"Authentic existence requires confronting finitude and death."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Authenticity is achieved through being toward death."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Genius is talent exercised with courage."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"The scientist must be willing to abandon cherished hypotheses."
Carnap, Rudolf
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"You cannot learn to swim without entering the water."
Popper, Karl
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"Innovation requires the courage to be wrong."
Popper, Karl
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"Resoluteness opens up the most extreme possibilities of human existence."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone."
Dewey, John
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"Courage is the resolution to face a problem, not to run from it."
Dewey, John
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"The scientific worldview requires courage to accept what evidence shows, not what we wish to believe."
Carnap, Rudolf
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"We must be courageous enough to abandon cherished beliefs when evidence contradicts them."
Carnap, Rudolf
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"We cannot pursue truth effectively without the courage to follow the argument wherever it leads."
Carnap, Rudolf
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"If you want to go down a path, you must first take a step."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action in spite of it."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
James, William
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"The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort."
James, William
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"Authenticity requires confronting our own mortality and finitude."
Heidegger, Martin