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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.

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.


Aleister Crowley  Aleister Crowley
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Aleister Crowley (/ˈæleɪstər ˈkroʊli/; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century. A prolific writer, he published widely over the course of his life.

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

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

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

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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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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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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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