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.
From Aleister Crowley
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.
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
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