
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
“The Brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear”
Source: How to Fall in Love
Moralia: Sayings of Kings and Commanders, Plutarch; English translation by Frank Cole Babbitt
Variant translation by Goodwin:
He that is afraid of scoffs and reproaches is more a coward than he that flies from the enemy.
Address to the Swedish Academy (20 December 1954)
“Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it”
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History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, Preface, p. 26
Referenced
“Why should man be afraid to think, and why should he fear to express his thoughts?”
Heretics and Heresies (1874)
Context: Why should man be afraid to think, and why should he fear to express his thoughts?
Is it possible that an infinite Deity is unwilling that a man should investigate the phenomena by which he is surrounded? Is it possible that a god delights in threatening and terrifying men? What glory, what honor and renown a god must win on such a field! The ocean raving at a drop; a star envious of a candle; the sun jealous of a fire-fly.
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971), p. 24–25