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Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the…

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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…
Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really…
Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his…
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they…
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex;…
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be…
What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true…
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people…
Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.
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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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. — William Blake
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades
All concord's born of contraries. — Ben Jonson
Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form… — Eliphas Levi
Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that… — Aleister Crowley
Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is… — Giordano Bruno
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one… — Thomas Browne
In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of… — Carl Jung
The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to… — Giordano Bruno
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries. — Carl Jung
By proving contraries, truth is made manifest. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look… — Louisa May Alcott

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