Fear Quotes

The thing that stops us and, when faced, the thing that frees us. Both sides explored here.

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"Fear reveals what we truly value and what we are willing to protect."
Oswald Spengler
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"Fear thrives in ignorance; knowledge is the antidote to fear."
Arnold Toynbee
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"Fear is the enemy of freedom."
Margaret Mead
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Michel Crouzet
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"The night was dangerous, marginal, and spiritually charged."
Jacques Le Goff
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"The fear of heresy revealed anxieties about social order itself."
Jacques Le Goff
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"Fear is not the opposite of courage; it is the prerequisite for it."
Arnold Toynbee
"Fear exploited has toppled many societies."
Eric Hobsbawm
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"Fear of the unknown can be overcome through education and understanding."
E.P. Thompson
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"Fear becomes our master only when we refuse to acknowledge it."
Michel Crouzet
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"Fear is the tax we pay for caring about something."
Michel Crouzet
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"Modern anxiety stems from a loss of certainty."
Peter Berger
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"Fear is the truth the culture wishes to conceal."
Philip Rieff
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"Fear is often a teacher in disguise."
David Riesman
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"Modern consciousness is characterized by vertigo before a seemingly infinite array of possibilities."
Peter Berger
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"The modern individual suffers from a kind of vertigo before the infinite possibilities of existence."
Peter Berger
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"Fear often protects us not from danger but from the vulnerability of being truly alive."
Maurice Natanson
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"Fear is the absence of knowledge."
Lucien Goldmann
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"Fear often prevents us from becoming ourselves."
Lucien Goldmann
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"The other-directed person is fundamentally more anxious."
David Riesman
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"The fear of not fitting in surpasses the fear of death."
David Riesman
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"Fear often protects us from harm."
Siegfried Kracauer
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"Fear is the enemy of freedom."
Ernst Bloch
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"Fear is the only thing we have to fear."
Ernst Bloch
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"Modern anxiety is not fear of punishment but fear of irrelevance."
David Riesman
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"Fear is often the gateway to understanding what we truly value."
Ernst Bloch
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"Fear often points us toward the things we most need to understand."
Ernst Bloch
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"Darkness may have kept us from knowing what we are capable of."
Martin Heidegger
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"Fear is the primary tool through which systems maintain themselves without obvious coercion."
Herbert Marcuse
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"Fear of the unknown is fear of our own possibilities."
Ernst Bloch