"The greatest horrors in the history of mankind……" — Aleister Crowley
"The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka."
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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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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited…
— Horace
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The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out…
— Christa Wolf
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I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon,
— Heinrich Schliemann
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When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not…
— James Joyce
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The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one…
— James Lee Burke
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Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down…
— Homer
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After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the…
— Umberto Eco
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SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing…
— Ambrose Bierce
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To the semidivine hero, the mere fact of ruling over more men does not constitute greatness, and as for glory…
— Cedric H Whitman
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