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Fanaticism Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.
- Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of…
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- Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma. — John Berger
- The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which… — John C. Calhoun
- A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. — Winston Churchill
- It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything. — Evita Peron
- The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity. — Oscar Wilde
- Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree. — Alexander Pope
- Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left… — William Shakespeare
- If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants. — Albert Einstein
- Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes… — Albert Einstein
- No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of… — Helen Keller