“A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.”
More from Aldous Huxley on Psychology
“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”
“Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.”
“The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.”
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