A celibate clergy is an especially good idea because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

My mother was a P.E. teacher and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.

Overall I think I'm in pretty good shape but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear either as a principle or a motive is the beginning of all evil.

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

Moderation is part of faith so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.

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.

I grew up with baseball I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I as I grew up became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.