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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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It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged. – Aldous Huxley

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God isnt compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. – Aldous Huxley

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God
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. – Aldous Huxley

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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. – E. M. Cioran

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No violent extreme endures. – Thomas Carlyle

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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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Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind. – William Cowper

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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it. – Mary Astell

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