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.
From Aleister Crowley
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
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.
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.
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
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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