Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“If someone tells you that pleasure is wrong and tolerance is weakness, and that you must follow this or that dogma blindly… — Seth Copy Share Image
A fanatic commits to an ideal to whatever end. A fanatic throws everything aside to pursue their idea. Take something which it… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
“Naskar, The Origin Story (Sonnet 1999) Naren, Subhas, Abhijit, three vessels, one spirit. All three spring from paramhansa, in paramhansa we three… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I think that there are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism, of all… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I was raised to be modest to the point of fanaticism. In my family, we don't talk about ourselves to each other.… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
One of the things you hear about when studying the nature of fanaticism is that a lot of the time, people don't… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“Parasitus Politicas (Sonnet 2846) Law is not justice, justice is often illegal. Government is not the culture, culture lives outside the government.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“She could have rambled with all the fervor of a woman who had loved one entity for longer than most races live,… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super-personal force: the Race, the Party,… — Lloyd Billingsley Copy Share Image
“The attitude that psychologists call inflation and the traditional lore of Cabalistic magic, borrowing a term from religion, calls spiritual pride is… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
You mean am I for it or against it? You think this is a key question I'm going to be asked on… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“In that face, deformed by hatred of philosophy, I saw for the first time the portrait of the Antichrist, who does not… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The rain's been racing earthwards as if with some religious or political fanaticism. The clouds have the look of dark internal bleeding.… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Human nature simply cannot subsist without a hope and aim of some kind; as the sanity of the Old Testament truly said,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“This false epistemology, however, has also led to disastrous consequences. The theory that truth is manifest—that it is there for everyone to… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“{ From Lindsey's address at the funeral of renowned scientist Luther Burbank . Burbank was one of the most beloved people in… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
“... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion ... that the fanatical… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
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