“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”

— Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 1757, Part II Section II

About Edmund Burke

1729 – 1797

Irish statesman and political philosopher, author of "Reflections on the Revolution in France".

“Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.”

“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”

“Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.”

“Worrying and anxiety go together, but worry is not an emotion; it's the thinking part of anxiety.”

“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death.”

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”

“Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.”

“To maintain the state of doubt and to carry on systematic and protracted inquiry ― these are the essentials of thinking.”