"We are terrified by the idea of..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.”

“With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.”

“Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.”

“While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would chide his companions if they began to panic in the water: Maybe you're afraid of sinking, Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.”

“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”

“We make trifles of terrors,Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge,When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.”

“Dread of night. Dread of not-night.”

“Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.”

“Subjection to fear is weakness, bondage, feverish unrest. To be afraid is to have no soul that we can call our own; it is to be at the beck and call of alien powers, to be chained and driven and tormented; it is to lose the life itself in the anxious care to keep it.”