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" Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle. "
Animals
Principle
Wild
" Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. "
Whole
Shall
Thou
" Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. "
Form
Fear
Another
" I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman. "
Lust
Kiss
Woman
" If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad. "
Must
Bible
Go
" I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. "
Never
Me
Belief
" Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics. "
Physics
Practice
Opportunity
" In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. "
Talents
Willpower
Absence
" Intolerance is evidence of impotence. "
Intolerance
Impotence
Evidence
" 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. "
Her
Doubt
Faith
" I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. "
Being
Did
Good
" 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. "
Him
Personal
Believe
" Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. "
Nature
People
Facts
" Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. "
Only
Morality
Ordinary
" Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life. "
Faces
Facts
Wholesome
" Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty. "
Everyone
Public
Horror
" Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. "
Wisdom
Always
Magical
" 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. "
Guilty
Doctor
World
" 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. "
Experience
Life
Joy
" The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. "
Mountain
Person
Like
" The people who have really made history are the martyrs. "
Made
History
People
" The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. "
Makes
Evil
Vague
" 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. "
Door
Neighbor
Hell
" To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. "
Message
Never
Me
" 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. "
Mind
Education
Discipline
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