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Aleister Crowley
The ordinary man...
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek...
I have never...
I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
To me a...
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. . ....
Indubitably, Magick is...
Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for...
Roughly speaking, any...
Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his...
It sometimes strikes...
It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our...
Ordinary morality is...
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
Source: The Confessions of Aleister...
I can imagine...
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first...
Falsehood is invariably...
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Source: The...
If one had...
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an...
The conscience of...
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics;...
The supreme satisfaction...
The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbour and this fact goes far to account for religious...
Chinese civilisation is...
Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
I was not...
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get...
The people who...
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Source: The Confessions of...
To read a...
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore...
The pious pretence...
The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
The greatest horrors...
The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the...
Part of the...
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially...
Destiny is an...
Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It...
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