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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."
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 50 (1929, rev. 1970). |
"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."
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 23 (1929, rev. 1970). |
"When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one's physical powers and the character of the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then every man one meets is an individual. One is no longer regarded by the whole population as an unapproachable and uninteresting animal to be cheated and robbed."
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 67 (1929, rev. 1970). |
"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal."
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 65 (1929, revised 1970). |
"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 antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon."
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 4 (1929, rev. 1970). |
"Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points."
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 56 (1929, revised 1970). |
"Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales."
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 57 (1929, rev. 1970). |
"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 49 (1929, revised 1970). |
"To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilise them."
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 68 (1929, revised 1970). |
"Intolerance is evidence of impotence."
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 69 (1929, revised 1970). |
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