“You must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage until you have succeeded in the Operation. More, unless you mean to perform it, and are prepared to go to any length to do so, you are a fool to have the book in your possession at all. Those squares are liable to get loose and do things on their own initiative; and you won't like it.” MeanBookUseGivenMagicFoolAccountsSacredPreparedPossessionOperationsLengthSquaresInitiativeLiable Author:Aleister Crowley
“They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the (religious) traditions or interpreted them!” FirstsBookReasonFactsLastsReligiousFictionFoolTraditionSacredForgedReligious Traditions Author:Al-Maʿarri
“O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust And died in baseness-and their law is dust.” MenLawWealthFoolDiedSacredLustDustAwakeCheatRiteBaseness Author:Al-Maʿarri
“I feel there is a strong bond between artists and children and all other sacred fools.” FeelsChildrenArtistStrongFoolSacredStrong Bond Author:Gottfried Helnwein
“However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't it plain how the true artist-seer actually dies? I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.” HumansDoeArtistDiesCausesLonelinessProduceColorFoolShapesConscienceSacredSuicideReportsHeavenlyConsumptionContradictorySeersTrue ArtistsScruples Author:J. D. Salinger
“The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.” IfsChildrenPersonsHandsNamesProcessParentNumbersSituationTeachingFoolCallingEssentialsCapacitySacredPrisonCrueltyEmployeeConsiderationCover Ups Author:George Bernard Shaw
“People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon....This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us [Joshua 10:13]that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.” PeopleStillsShowsEarthHeavenWishSunFoolMoonEarsSacredAstronomyScriptureReverseFirmamentSacred ScriptureUpstart Author:Martin Luther