The only thing greater then fear is hope.
"The Hunger Games"Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly and with intense interest I am glad to comply with his request to give him my impression.
The work is a broadly conceived attempt to portray man's fear-induced animistic and mythic ideas with all their far-flung transformations and interrelations. It relates the impact of these phantasmagorias on human destiny and the causal relationships by which they have become crystallized into organized religion.
This is a biologist speaking, whose scientific training has disciplined him in a grim objectivity rarely found in the pure historian. This objectivity has not, however, hindered him from emphasizing the boundless suffering which, in its end results, this mythic thought has brought upon man.
Professor Smith envisages as a redeeming force, training in objective observation of all that is available for immediate perception and in the interpretation of facts without preconceived ideas. In his view, only if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.
His historical picture closes with the end of the nineteenth century, and with good reason. By that time it seemed that the influence of these mythic, authoritatively anchored forces which can be denoted as religious, had been reduced to a tolerable level in spite of all the persisting inertia and hypocrisy.
Even then, a new branch of mythic thought had already grown strong, one not religious in nature but no less perilous to mankind -- exaggerated nationalism. Half a century has shown that this new adversary is so strong that it places in question man's very survival. It is too early for the present-day historian to write about this problem, but it is to be hoped that one will survive who can undertake the task at a later date.
Stichwörter: fear science future humanity nationalism suffering organized-religion myths forward historian objectivity biologist homer-smith homer-w-smith man-and-his-gods mythic-thought
Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
Giordano BrunoStichwörter: fear science progress last-words martyr burning astronomy hero condemnation inquisition heresy blasphemy heretical burned-at-the-stake martyr-for-science
Most successful people move from fear to failure; to faith and then to fruitfulness. That's the trend.
Israelmore AyivorStichwörter: fear success people belief faith believe fruit failure fail successful trend believe-and-achieve successfully fruitful
Or can it be thought that they who heap up an useless mass of wealth, not for any use that it is to bring them, but merely to please themselves with the contemplation of it, enjoy any true pleasure in it? The delight they find is only a false shadow of joy. Those are no better whose error is somewhat different from the former, and who hide it, out of their fear of losing it; for what other name can fit the hiding it in the earth, or rather the restoring to it again, it being thus cut off from being useful, either to its owner or to the rest of mankind? And yet the owner having hid it carefully, is glad, because he thinks he is now sure of it. It if should be stole, the owner, though he might live perhaps ten years after the theft, of which he knew nothing, would find no difference between his having or losing it; for both ways it was equally useless to him.
Thomas MoreStichwörter: fear money rich wealth greed
If we always live
in constant fear
then we might miss
the beauty of the moment
right now, right here.
Stichwörter: fear inspiration beauty courage dread moment
Do not fear what you cannot lift, fear that which can lift you.
Uziel Matos LimaStichwörter: fear inspirational weight-lifting weightlifting
In the darkness, fear my light.
Susann CokalStichwörter: fear dark light renaissance kingdom-of-little-wounds skyggehavn
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
John Paul JonesStichwörter: fear strength faith habit
Do not fear to think even the most not-probable.
Bram StokerStichwörter: fear probability van-helsing
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