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I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.
Postscript to the Outsider (1967)
What can characterize the Outsider is a sense of strangeness, or unreality.
The Outsider (1956)
The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.
Art is naturally concerned with man in his existential aspect, not in his scientific aspect.
The Strength To Dream (1961)
Faculty X is simply that latent power in human beings possess to reach beyond the present.
The Occult: A History (1971)
It seems that thought itself has a power for which it has never been given credit.
Frankenstein's Castle (1980)
Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is the feeling that man is not the mere he has always taken himself for.
Introduction to the New Existentialism (1966)
The real importance of Swedenborg lies in the doctrines he taught, which are the reverse of the gloom and hell-fire of other breakaway sects.
The Occult: A History (1971)
No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity.
Mysteries (1978)
Man should possess an infinite appetite for life. It should be self-evident to him, all the time, that life is superb, glorious, endlessly rich, infinitely desirable.
The Philosopher's Stone (1969)
No artist can develop without increasing his self-knowledge; but self-knowledge supposes a certain preoccupation with the meaning of human life and the destiny of man.
The Strength To Dream (1961)
The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.
The Outsider (1956)
Nothing is further from sadism, for example, than the cheerful, optimistic mentality of a Shaw or Wells.
The Origins of the Sexual Impulse (1963)
Its founder may have not been a great occultist, but he was a great man.
The Occult: A History (1971)
Husserl has shown that man's prejudices go a great deal deeper than his intellect or his emotions. Consciousness itself is 'prejudiced' — that is to say, intentional.
Introduction to the New Existentialism (1966)
The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.
The Outsider (1956)
The Outsider is always unhappy, but he is an agent that ensures the happiness for millions of 'Insiders'.
The Outsider (1956)
Crowley wanted to be a magician because he wanted power -- power over other people.
Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast (1987)
One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life.
Religion and the Rebel (1957)
For Jung, the 'psychic world' (i.e. the world of the mind) was an independent reality, and it was possible to travel there and make the acquaintance of its inhabitants.
Rudolf Steiner: The Man and His Vision (1985)