English - Critic | October 12, 1875 - December 1, 1947
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Aleister Crowley
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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
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To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
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Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
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Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
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Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
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Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
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