"A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage……" — Aleister Crowley
"A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world."
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Aleister Crowley
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152 Quotes by Aleister Crowley
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Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to…
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Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being…
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Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round…
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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent…
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Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery…
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It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will,…
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What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover…
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The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
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Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If…
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Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.
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What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme,…
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It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the…
— Thomas de Quincey
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We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching…
— Unknown Author
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The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse…
— John Fowles
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Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
— Julio Cortazar
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I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.
— Glenn Greenwald
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The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet…
— Margaret Thatcher
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To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred
— Tina Brown
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QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate…
— Jonathan Swift
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Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide…
— Arno Allan Penzias
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Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.
— Andy Hobsbawm
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