“Fear and superstition always follow the unseen, the unknown, the whispered of.”
Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 34, “I Am M’urgi/On B’Yurngrad” (p. 312)
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“There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery.”
McKenna interview (1992)
Context: There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery. It's possible to achieve a state where you realize the truth of life and fear disappears, and a lot of people have reached that state, but next to none of them are on Earth. There's probably a few.
Source: The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases (1916), p. 37
“It’s amazing what superstitions survive in fearful minds.”
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 10, “Werteswandel” (p. 462)
Source: Unpopular Essays
“Instead of fearing the unknown, we must conquer our fear.”
Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016
"Supernatural Horror in Literature" (1927)
Non-Fiction
Variant: The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
Source: The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
“What was reprehensible in being fearful in the presence of the unknown?”
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 1, “Planetfall: The Hawks of Conscience” (p. 33)
“Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.”
"The Enemy"
Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)