Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Quote by Aldous Huxley

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That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively...

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively...

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul...

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul...

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time...

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time...

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one;...

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one;...

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about...

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about...

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what...

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what...

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and...

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and...

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his...

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his...

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate,...

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate,...

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion...

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion...

I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously...

I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously...

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent...

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent...

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them...

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them...

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid...

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid...

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets...

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets...