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Mind's Prison, Body's Cage.

Fear is a primal, visceral response to perceived threat, triggering physiological and psychological changes designed for survival. While often unpleasant, fear is fundamentally meaningful because it alerts us to danger, prompts protective action, and ultimately fosters resilience and adaptability in a world fraught with uncertainty.

Fear

# Fear & Emotions

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Context: • Anna Margolin "From a Diary" (1909) Translated from the Yiddish by Daniel Kennedy in During Sleepless Nights and Other Stories (2022)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear" (M)
“Yearning conquers fear.”
— Unknown
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Context: • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 3, line 43.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear" (S)
“Best safety lies in fear.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Let them hate, so long as they fear.
• Lucius Accius from Atreus, quoted in Seneca, Dialogues, Books III–V "De Ira", I, 20, 4.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear" (A)
“Oderint dum metuant.”
— Unknown
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Context: • David, Book of Proverbs, 3:25.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear" (D)
“Be not afraid of sudden fear.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Boyd K. Packer Do Not Fear, April 2004
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear" (P)
“Fear is the opposite of faith.”
— Unknown
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# Fear & Works by Søren Kierkegaard

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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Fear and Trembling" (Quotes, Prelude)
“Section 4, Prelude”
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Philosophical works‎Fear and Trembling Works by Søren Kierkegaard
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Context: • p. 54
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear and Trembling" (Quotes, Problema I)
“Is there such a thing as a teleological suspension of the ethical?”
— Unknown
Philosophical works‎Fear and Trembling Works by Søren Kierkegaard
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Context: • p. 68
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear and Trembling" (Quotes, Problema II)
“In Hegelian philosophy, the outer (the externalization) is higher than the inner.”
— Unknown
Philosophical works‎Fear and Trembling Works by Søren Kierkegaard
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Fear and Trembling" (Quotes, Epilogue)
“"One must go further, one must go further." This impulse to go further is an ancient thing in the world.”
— Unknown
Philosophical works‎Fear and Trembling Works by Søren Kierkegaard
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Fear and Trembling" (Quotes, Problema I)
“The difference between the tragic hero and Abraham is clearly evident. The tragic hero still remains in the ethical.”
— Unknown
Philosophical works‎Fear and Trembling Works by Søren Kierkegaard
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Fear and Trembling" (Quotes, Prelude)
“Section 4, Prelude”
— Unknown
Philosophical works‎Fear and Trembling Works by Søren Kierkegaard
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Context: • Anna Margolin "From a Diary" (1909) Translated from the Yiddish by Daniel Kennedy in During Sleepless Nights and Other Stories (2022)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear" (M)
“Yearning conquers fear.”
— Unknown
Emotions
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Context: • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 3, line 43.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear" (S)
“Best safety lies in fear.”
— Unknown
Emotions
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Context: • Let them hate, so long as they fear.
• Lucius Accius from Atreus, quoted in Seneca, Dialogues, Books III–V "De Ira", I, 20, 4.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear" (A)
“Oderint dum metuant.”
— Unknown
Emotions
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Context: • David, Book of Proverbs, 3:25.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear" (D)
“Be not afraid of sudden fear.”
— Unknown
Emotions
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Context: • Boyd K. Packer Do Not Fear, April 2004
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear" (P)
“Fear is the opposite of faith.”
— Unknown
Emotions
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Context: • James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects, Party Politics.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 267-70.)
“Fear is the parent of cruelty.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Martin Luther King, as quoted in Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, by Gerald Posner
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear" (K)
“I'd rather be dead than afraid.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Chapter XXIV.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 267-70.)
“Scared out of his seven senses.”
— Unknown
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Context: • William Shakespeare, Henry VI (1594), Act IV, scene i.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear" (S)
“True nobility is exempt from fear.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Jacques Lusseyran, And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II, p. 253
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear" (L)
“fear kills, and joy maintains life.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Aristotle.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 267-70.)
“No one loves the man whom he fears.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 267-70.)
“Fear always springs from ignorance.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Fear has many eyes.
• Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, III. 6.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 267-70.)
“El miedo tiene muchos ojos.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Fear gave wings to his feet.
• Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), VIII. 224.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fear" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 267-70.)
“Pedibus timor addidit alas.”
— Unknown
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