“Fear is the mind-killer.”
Source: Dune
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Lookstein, Haskel: "Were We Our Brother's Keepers?" New York: 1985.
[Colon, Alicia, Free Speech For All?, The New York Sun, 4, September 28, 2007]
“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
Source: The Lost Symbol
“Fear speaks degenerate minds.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.”
Degeneres animos timor arguit.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 13
“When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear.”
Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt, quod primum formidare cœperunt.
IV, 16, 17.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IV
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
“A valiant mind no deadly danger fears;”
From Reason and Affection. First published in Paradyse of Dainty Devices (1576), revised in the 1596 edition. It is also known as "Being in Love he complaineth". Published by Grosart in Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies' Library, Vol. IV (1872)
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