English - Critic | October 12, 1875 - December 1, 1947
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister Crowley
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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
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I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
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The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
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I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
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In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
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Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
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Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
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If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
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I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
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