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"Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
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"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."
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"Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society."
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"Fear deprives us the fullness of existence."
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"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."
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"A monster's worst fear is of being found."
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"Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it."
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"Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity."
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"So many horrid Ghosts."
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"There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and this is just as well because the world could not really operate if everyone stayed in bed with the blankets over their head, which is what would happen if people knew what horrors lay a shadow's width away."
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"Do not allow the anxiety on how you will achieve your goals stop you from dreaming."
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"War grows out of ordinary human nature."
Conflict

"Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities."
Philosophy

"Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy."
Love

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
Life

"We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach."
Ethics

"In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in killing each other, but that sensible men would keep out of their way while they were doing it. Fortunately this outlook, which is reminiscent of Bentham, has become rare in this age, which recognizes that heroism has a value independent of its utility. The Last Survivor of a Dead Epoch."
War

"Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture."
Science

"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."
Education

"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."
Progress

"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."
Change
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