"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is……" — Aleister Crowley
"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."
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Aleister Crowley
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152 Quotes by Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley has 152 quotes on this site.
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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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Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
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Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking…
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When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet…
— Jimmy Carter
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There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering…
— Dick Cheney
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When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.
— Andy Andrews
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If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves.…
— Dale Carnegie
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For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us,…
— Adolf Hitler
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Confronted with the vision of a beautiful garden, we see something beautiful about ourselves.
— Jeff Cox
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Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange If we accept them we will never win. Since…
— George S. Patton
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I've been hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, but confronted by none.
— Drake
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I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do…
— Ken Kesey
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A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption.
— Peter Dunne
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