“I think,” Barney said, gently, “you should let these people alone.” And me, too, he thought. I’ve got enough troubles as it is; don’t add your religious fanaticism and make it worse.

Philip K Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]

Hermetic quote Dick The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch religious fanaticism worse

Consider also:

  1. “I mean, after all; you have to consider we’re only made out of dust. That’s admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn’t forget that. But even considering, I mean it’s a sort of bad beginning, we’re not doing too bad.”
  2. “You’re getting worse. More fanatical every day. Where’s it going to lead?”
  3. Ubik
  4. “How strange,” Juliana said. “I never would have thought the truth would make you angry.”
  5. “Like every man of importance he had his daimonion and his amor fati; but in him amor fati manifests itself to us free of somberness and fanaticism.”