Men Small Quotes by Austin Osman Spare

And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things.

— Austin Osman Spare

“Quietism, Buddhism, and other religions, everything which denies the flesh—is the great inferiority to God in ourselves, an escapism seeking sanctuary through fear of…

— Austin Osman Spare

The more Chaotic I am, the more complete I am.

— Austin Osman Spare

For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am…

— Austin Osman Spare

“Belief is ever its own tempter to believe differently. You cannot believe freedom into existence, but can you free yourself from belief ? You…

— Austin Osman Spare

Embrace reality by imagination.

— Austin Osman Spare

“Sigils are made by combining the letters of the alphabet after a process of simplification. For example, the word ‘Woman’ in Sigil form is…

— Austin Osman Spare

“Sigils are the art of believing; my invention for making belief unconscious66 and therefore true belief. A wish to believe something is of necessity…

— Austin Osman Spare

“The intrinsic non-existence at the heart of entity is what Spare designated the Kiã, and he strove to convey his vision in a theory…

— Austin Osman Spare

“In what way can it act as master? Through scores of incarnations, the ‘self ’ we end up with is derived from the attributes…

— Austin Osman Spare

“Oh, you men of small pleasure and enterprise, oblivious to your purpose, fault-finding, avaricious and sinful, who cannot live without women and cannot enjoy…

— Austin Osman Spare

“Oh God, thou art the stagnant environment’.12 All is quackery: these religions, whose very existence depends on their failure, are full of misery and…

— Austin Osman Spare

“The desire to be ‘great’can only become unconscious at a time of vacuity67 and by giving it (Sigil) form. If you become conscious of…

— Austin Osman Spare

“Know all ritual, ceremony, and conditions to be arbitrary (you have yourself to please): in the end, they are just a hindrance and a…

— Austin Osman Spare

“The one law of Art is its own spontaneity, its pleasure and freedom. How mystic, pure and simple is its wish; it has no…

— Austin Osman Spare