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Aleister Crowley has 152 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the…
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Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really…
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Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his…
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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 whenever they…
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Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex;…
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It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be…
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What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true…
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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 enough people…
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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, the absolute…
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
— Arthur Balfour
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of…
— Lydia M. Child
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.…
— Leonard Cohen
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Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute…
— Sun Tzu
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We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will…
— Sigmund Freud
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty.…
— Philip Yancey
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...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced,…
— Hippocrates
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his…
— Baruch Spinoza
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I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching, absorbing; when…
— Jennifer Worth
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Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher…
— George Meredith
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or…
— Florence Nightingale
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