Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Quote by Aleister Crowley

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Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at...

Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at...

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts....

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts....

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of...

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of...

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes...

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes...

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty....

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty....

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so...

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so...

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take...

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take...

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about...

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about...

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that...

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that...

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline...

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline...

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who...

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who...

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the...

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the...

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next...

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next...

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for...

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for...