"To read a newspaper is to refrain from……" — Aleister Crowley
"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."
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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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I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they…
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I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized…
— Michael Stipe
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My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like…
— Michael Lewis
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All the pre-made sauces in a jar, and frozen and canned vegetables, processed meats, and cheeses which are loaded with…
— Todd English
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The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a…
— Unknown Author
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The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.
— John Avlon
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Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
— Ralph Bakshi
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The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For…
— Jennifer Haigh
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We sucked in atheism with our canned milk.
— Joy Davidman
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Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing…
— Russell Baker
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We used to joke about canned men, putting people in a can and seeing how far you can send them…
— John Glenn
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No member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who has canned peas, topped beets, hauled hay, shoveled…
— Thomas S. Monson
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