Animal Quote by Eliphas Levi

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane...

— Alexander Pushkin

...the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means ‘hidden’ or ‘obscured.’ In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdoctrinal had…

— Dan Brown

Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with…

— Tertullian

Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore…

— Francois Fenelon

“The curse of life The story of Man’s10 abrupt expulsion from Eden – be it fiction, metaphor or literal fact – has become etched…

— Lynn Picknett

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

— Cyril Connolly

“You bitches, sows, screech-owls, night owls, she-wolves, blood suckers, [who] cry “Give, give! without ceasing” (Prov. 30:15–16). Come now, hear me, harlots, prostitutes, with…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.

— John Milton

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

— Franz Kafka

“Love of the absolute engenders a predilection for self-destruction. Hence the passion for monasteries and brothels. Cells and women, in both cases. Weariness with…

— Emil Cioran

“In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the echoing…

— Theodore Roethke