All Aleister Crowley Quotes
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
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Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
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Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
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The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
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The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
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I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
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Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
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Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
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