Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 154
“Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
Variant: Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 11, Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand.
“There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.”
Source: The 48 Laws of Power
“Nothing is more dangerous than a place of safety.”
Prayers For The Assassin (2006)
“There’s nothing more dangerous than a good idea.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
“There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.”
“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death.”
Source: 1910s, Why Men Fight https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Why_Men_Fight (1917), pp. 178-179
Context: Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. It sees man, a feeble speck, surrounded by unfathomable depths of silence; yet it bears itself proudly, as unmoved as if it were lord of the universe. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”
Variant: Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”" -
Source: The Name of the Rose
“Nothing is more frightful than to see ignorance in action.”
Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tätige Unwissenheit.
Maxim 542, trans. Stopp
Variant translation by Saunders: Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action. (231)
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
