My Quote

[misterreplicant]

"A man without fear, is a man without care." (~QML)

What I mean by this is, in order to fear, you must have something you care about. Because, the fear usually comes from losing something you care about. Concluding that in men that claim they fear nothing, care about nothing in their lives, or even their life.

What do you guys think about this quote?

[jajdude]

Dunno what it means really but I like it. Shall think. Ugh, hate thinking.

[The Ol' Man]

If fear is dependent upon care, by your definition, then it should read as
"A man without care is a man without fear." interchanging 'care' and 'fear'.
It constitutes a maxim, I suppose.
Your own syntax isn't wrong as such, but from what I'm disposed to observe,
I think this arrangement might be more applicable.

[hoope]

It's not necessary !
Fear and care are not that much connected... But yes.. if do care about something then you do fear to lose it.. But sometimes people don't fear anything .. but they do care about their families.. work .. whatsoever.. !
I don't know .. maybe it don't make sense..

But its nice quote :)

[Alexander III]

If we base the meaning of fearless as devoid of fear, then you are correct.

BUT

Fearlessness is not being devoid of fear. No animal is devoid of fear, it is an intrinsic part of nature. A animal or man devoid of fear would be about as common as a man or animal devoid of emotion. Thus impossible.

Fearlessness is not lack of fear, but rather the overcoming of fear; confronting the fear and acting DESPITE of the fear being there.

[misterreplicant]

What I am talking about, which you may not be acquainted to, is some students at my school. How they believe that they are 'fearless' conveying they lack fear (and, apparently better than everyone else). I abolished (or killed) their ignorance when I created that quote to post on my FB page. Many people that know me personally liked the quote and understood what I was talking about, because most of the people it was about are too ignorant to understand it.
Thanks a lot for your input guys!!

[Alexander III]

Well then, all of what you mention is irrelevant, a quote should stand alone worthy of itself, no other background knowledge should be needed to make it properly understood. If it requires background information to be understood then its not much of a quote.

[chipper]

If you don't have a choice, don't make one. - me

[Delta40]

fearless is defined as without fear, brave. Fearfulness is defined as experiencing fear. It prompts one to ask, which attribute makes a hero?

I like your quote.

[Panglossian]

It's obvious that some individuals are more fearless than others, but to claim to be totally without fear is ridiculous. There will always be something. For instance, imagine Orwell's Room 101: they would find something to summon fear in every person. Perhaps a mature way to approach fear is to attempt to face one's fears - within reason. So i'd re-write your saying as: "A man without fear is a man without foresight."

[G L Wilson]

To fear not pain is to love.

[Hawkman]

To be without fear is to lack imagination, the ability to foresee the consequences of one's actions (as applicable to one's self at least). One would think that eventually this trait would die out - due to Darwinian laws of natural selection. To be a hero and/or brave is to accept the percieved risk and potential sacrifice, then overcome the the fear it induces.

Literary heros in classical and contemporary literature though, are required to qualify as such by fitting a Mythic paradigm. This paradigm, is defined by JL Henderson (1964) "Ancient Myths and Modern Man" in Jung, C (ed.) 1964, "Man and his Symbols", London: Picador.



"Over and over again, one hears a tale describing a hero's miraculous but
humble brith, his early proof of superhuman strength, his rapid rise to
prominence or power, his triumphant struggle with the forces of evil, his
fallibility to the sin of pride (hubris), and his fall through betrayal or a
"heroic" sacrifice that ends in his death." (Henderson 1964 p101)

[The Atheist]

"A man without fear, is a man without care." (~QML)

What I mean by this is, in order to fear, you must have something you care about. Because, the fear usually comes from losing something you care about. Concluding that in men that claim they fear nothing, care about nothing in their lives, or even their life.

What do you guys think about this quote?

In one word: baloney.

Unless you want to argue that human emotions are not simple biological mechanisms placed in a human constructed world, then fear is simply another evolutionary trait, and therefore no relation to "care" at all.

Fear is clearly a survival trait, as evinced by even "lower" animals, so it seems like a clear fail to me.

[Jack of Hearts]

Well it's not the worst quote this reader has ever read.

That distinction belongs to "Love is patient, love is... etc, etc."

Awful. Probably see that one fifty times a month. Maybe it's from the bible.




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[G L Wilson]

Love is deep...

[usman.khawar]

i m absolutly agree with your explanation may be not fully with the quote.
and this explanation is also the answer of what G L Wilson asked me how love n fear can be together. and let me dare to expand the canvass towards Lord. if you love God than you have to fear for doing such things, which become the reason to lose Him or distance, which He dont like us to do.

[G L Wilson]

i m absolutly agree with your explanation may be not fully with the quote.
and this explanation is also the answer of what G L Wilson asked me how love n fear can be together. and let me dare to expand the canvass towards Lord. if you love God than you have to fear for doing such things, which become the reason to lose Him or distance, which He dont like us to do.

I like this truth, and I am not even close to religious.

[blazeofglory]

This is a philosophical proposition and you can mold your answers as you like it. Of course fear and care rhyme structurally and semantically. That is how we try to convey things and making things symmetrical those which are asymmetrical. This is human nature. We try to relate some unrelated, polar opposites to strike some effects or results and today we are rich words and when we have wordplays that make things to deceive a reader. Some untruths can resemble truths and that is how a writer makes efficient use of his erudition.

[G L Wilson]

This is a philosophical proposition and you can mold your answers as you like it. Of course fear and care rhyme structurally and semantically. That is how we try to convey things and making things symmetrical those which are asymmetrical. This is human nature. We try to relate some unrelated, polar opposites to strike some effects or results and today we are rich words and when we have wordplays that make things to deceive a reader. Some untruths can resemble truths and that is how a writer makes efficient use of his erudition.

I like this truth about truth, and I am not religious.

[The Atheist]

Of course fear and care rhyme structurally ....

That's actually incorrect.

Spoken in English English, they don't actually rhyme. Or ask a Scotsman. I've been thinking of as many regional accents in English I can think of - many hundred across the globe - and it doesn't rhyme in many, while some are so far apart you couldn't use them as rhymes at all.

[G L Wilson]

That's actually incorrect.

Spoken in English English, they don't actually rhyme. Or ask a Scotsman. I've been thinking of as many regional accents in English I can think of - many hundred across the globe - and it doesn't rhyme in many, while some are so far apart you couldn't use them as rhymes at all.

I fear I don't care.