Philosophy on fear

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”

“For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahāmati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.”

“The superior man has neither anxiety nor fear. When internal examination discovers nothing wrong, what is there to be anxious about, what is there to fear?”

“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.”

“Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.”

“Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.”

“They are in bad faith — they are afraid — and fear, bad faith have an aroma that the gods find delicious. Yes, the gods like that, the pitiful souls.”

“You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.”

“All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?”

“You have not that power you ought to have over him, till he comes to be more afraid of offending so good a friend than of losing some part of his future expectation.”

“The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.”

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

“Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral.”

“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still small voice within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.”

“No man of sense can put himself and his soul under the control of names... You must consider courageously and thoroughly and not accept anything carelessly.”

“No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow.”

“You will thus understand that what you fear is either insignificant or short-lived.”

“For there is no such thing as perpetual Tranquility of mind, while we live here; because Life it selfe is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.”

“And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition.”