Realists do not fear the results of their study.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

I’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It’s a serious problem overseas, but it’s confusing and frightening.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

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

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

History should be written as philosophy.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.