when asked by the New York Times, "Do American military supplies go through Zaire to Savimbi in Angola?", Kelly, p. 4
“The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.”
“Some things simply were too true to stay. Some merely came to visit for a while.”
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Source: Language, Truth, and Logic (1936), p. 77.
Context: The principles of logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.
“The true person never talks behind your back. She is correct, spontaneous and simply rare.”
Original: La persona vera non parla mai alle tue spalle. È corretta, spontanea e semplicemente rara.
Source: prevale.net
Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Context: His first conception must evidently be a frantic spasm, formless, insane, not to be classed as an articulate thought. Yet, if he develops the faculties of his mind, the more he knows of it the more he sees that its nature is identical with his own whenever comparison is possible.
The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully. His sense of being under bondage comes from his inability to read it; his sense that evil exists to thwart him arises when he begins to learn to read, reads wrong, and is obstinate that his error is an improvement.
Source: The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why (1999), Chapter 2, Estimating Expected Return with the Theories of Modern Finance, p. 16
