Fanatic
Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in opinions; ultra; unreasonable; excessively enthusiastic, especially on religious subjects; as, fanatic zeal; fanatic notions.
A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion.
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Fanatic Quotations
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
William Butler Yeats
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley
A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Alan Watts
My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
Etta James
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.
Emile M. Cioran
A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.
Franklin P. Jones
I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
Gloria Swanson
I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.
Francesca Annis
Fanatic Translations
fanatic in German is Fanatiker
fanatic in Italian is fanatico
fanatic in Norwegian is fanatisk, fanatiker
fanatic in Swedish is fanatiker, fanatisk
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