Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.
Interpretation
Fear can negatively influence our actions more than other negative emotions, causing us to restrain ourselves.
In this quote, Philip K. Dick emphasizes the pervasive and detrimental effects of fear on our behavior. Unlike hate or jealousy, which may provoke us to act out, fear encourages us to withdraw and hold back, preventing us from fully engaging with the world and pursuing our true desires. This insight highlights the importance of confronting our fears to live more authentically and boldly.
In practice
During a motivational speech to encourage people to face their fears.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
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Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
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Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived of the possibility of being man. I cannot disassociate myself from the future that is proposed for my brother.
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