Adversaries Quote by Aleister Crowley

One of the ultimate ironies of eternity is that the adversary, who is miserable precisely because he has no physical body, invites and entices…

— David A. Bednar

“A wish for the irrational is not to be achieved, whether the sacrificial victims are willing or not. But men will not cease to…

— Ayn Rand

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary…

— Albert Einstein

We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the…

— Saint Basil

“Can this be in human nature! — Can such horrible perversion of right be permitted! Can man, who calls himself endowed with reason, and…

— Ann Radcliffe

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the…

— Thomas Carlyle

“if any one shall endeavour to offer a sacrifice merely to outward appearance, unexceptionably, in due order, and according to appointment, while in his…

— The Church Fathers

He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both…

— Saint Augustine

For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such…

— Plato

“What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads…

— Donna Tartt

“Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and generosity, and…

— Marcel Proust

Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those around him;…

— Jane Porter