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Quotation from The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
“If enthusiasm is comparable to _madness_, fanaticism is comparable to _monomania”
The Critique of Judgement, Part I, General Remark upon the Exposition of the Aesthetical Reflective Judgement, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914)
Kant contrasts enthusiasm, a passing unbridled affection that can befall a sound mind, with fanaticism, an inveterate brooding passion that he calls a disease of the understanding.
Citation: "If enthusiasm is comparable to _madness_, fanaticism is comparable to _monomania" — Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement, Part I, General Remark upon the Exposition of the Aesthetical Reflective Judgement, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914). (id kant-critique-of-judgement-q6)
