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Quote by Aldous Huxley
A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. – Aldous Huxley

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Modern mans besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions. – Aldous Huxley

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Intuition
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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. – Aldous Huxley

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Civilization
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Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them. – Aldous Huxley

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There is no place in a fanatics head where reason can enter. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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No violent extreme endures. – Thomas Carlyle

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Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises. – Storm Jameson

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue. – Robin G. Collingwood

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