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Aleister Crowley photo

“Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.”

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist

Introduction.
Source: Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Context: Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.
(Illustration: It is my Will to inform the World of certain facts within my knowledge. I therefore take "magical weapons", pen, ink, and paper; I write "incantations" — these sentences — in the "magical language" ie, that which is understood by the people I wish to instruct; I call forth "spirits", such as printers, publishers, booksellers and so forth and constrain them to convey my message to those people. The composition and distribution of this book is thus an act of Magick by which I cause Changes to take place in conformity with my Will.)
In one sense Magick may be defined as the name given to Science by the vulgar.

Art , Science , Change
Madeline Miller photo

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

Soul
Tupac Shakur photo

“No matter what these people say about me, my music does not glorify any image, my music is spiritual if you listen to it. It's all about emotion, it's all about life.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)

Life , People , Music
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José Baroja photo

“Then will come the excuse of those who supported this New World, saying they did not know, that it was exaggerated, that they were only defending order.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Interview.

Support , World
Kobe Bryant photo

“You have to be true to who you are.”

Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player
Tim Burton photo

“I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker
People , Understanding , Problem , Personality
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José Baroja photo

“And there will remain the uncomfortable memory, the precise recollection of the day when, following Trump and his policies, they accepted the unacceptable without questioning it.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Interview.

Question , Memory
Tim Burton photo

“I always liked strange characters.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker
Rumi photo

“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
Hurtful
Alexander the Great photo

“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”

Alexander the Great (-356–-323 BC) King of Macedon
Leadership
Zeno of Citium quote: “Happiness is a good flow of life.”
Zeno of Citium photo

“Happiness is a good flow of life.”

Zeno of Citium (-334–-263 BC) ancient Greek philosopher

As quoted by Stobaeus, ii. 77.

Life , Happiness
Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Variant: The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Sun Tzu photo

“To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape.”

Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty

Source: The Art of War, Chapter VII · Military Maneuvers

Way
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo

“Knowledge is a desire that comes after acquiring power. The first type of desire is love, then wealth, health, power and knowledge.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Wealth , Health , Knowledge , Love
Ernesto Che Guevara photo

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary

As quoted in Wise Guys : Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men (2005) by Allan Zullo, p. 36

Sylvia Plath photo

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Variant: I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 20

Heart

“I am less than what you tell about me but more than what you think about me”

Ali book Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha
Context: A man sarcastically started praising Imam Ali, though he had no faith in him and Imam Ali hearing these praises from him said "I am less than what you tell about me but more than what you think about me."

Thinking
Emily Dickinson photo

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
Books , Reading
Neale Donald Walsch photo

“The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek, therefore, not to find out Who You Are, seek to determine Who You Want to Be.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

Variant: The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.

Life , Secret