Author of quotes: Aleister Crowley

What makes absinthe special cult? And it seems as if the first inventor of the absinthe really was a magician, persistently seeking the combination of sacred potions, which would be purified, fortified, and bestowed upon the fragrance of the human soul. Undoubtedly, if you drink absinthe correctly to achieve this easily. From one portion of the breathing becomes freer, the spirit lighter, the heart is hot, and soul and mind better perform those great tasks for which they may have created the Creator.

We all do so many stupid things, for the most ridiculous reasons or even without them. "Forgive them Lord, for they know not what they do" relates to the nine tenth of our actions.

The British Empire owes its existence to this spirit. Our young people came to India and different places, and stepped over everyone just because they were too ignorant to realize all the difficulties awaiting them in this way. They were taught that if you have healthy veins in the blood (and in schools and universities, brought to automatism, the idea that you are Lord of creation and can not be wrong, and should not even notice the losses), then everything will be fine. And now we lose the Empire, because they were "struck pale infirmity of meditation". Intellectuals brought us to the provisions of the "miserable cats of the old sayings". The spirit of hamlet took the place of the spirit of Macbeth. And Macbeth just because he died, that Macduff took his courage in his interpretation of what he said witch. And Coriolanus failed only because had to stop and think. As the poet said: "Love the knowledge of the means to hate life."

Take Finance! Fraud has become a kind fine art and widely practiced in ways that would be useless if there were no laws established to protect the public.

Passions of the underworld find the only way out in a noisy frenzy of bestiality.

You can't count on the brain, where they are not and never were.

Get on top and stay on it and shoot anyone else who dares to climb!

Deep breath! And light full! And the brain flies to hell!

Intolerance is a sign of weakness.

Do good to others for his sake, not for reward, not for gratitude, not for sympathy.

Do whatever you want, that is the law.

But why dwell on the painful past? Of course you don't become strong in one minute. Take for example the eagle. Who is he stays in the egg? Nothing, just an egg with possibilities. And you are waiting to see what hatched from the egg it is the first day flies to Neptune and back. Don't wait!

We are always at least two! One who feels and one who knows - not quite the same person.

My real first impression was so strong psychological experience that to describe it simply no adequate words.