We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.
It is easy to forgive children who are afraid of the dark but the real tragedy of life is men who are afraid of the light.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light.
I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies.
He is not one: he is afraid. What is he afraid of? When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is of no use. Then it disappears and what you wanted to understand disappears with it.
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
But when at long last he had got his head out over the side of the bed, in mid-air, he became afraid of continuing in this manner, for if he were to fall like that it would take a miracle for him not to sustain a head injury. And consciousness was the last thing he wanted to lose at the present time; he would rather stay in bed.
Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.
