Aleister Crowley Quotes

The Fact Is That Very Few Of Us Know What Words Mean; Fewer Still Take The Trouble To Enquire. We Calmly, We Carelessly Assume That Our Minds Are Identical With That Of The Writer, At Least On That Point; And Then We Wonder That There Should Be Misunderstandings!
The Fact Is (again!) That Usually We Don't Really Want To Know; It Is So Very Much Easier To Drift Down The River Of Discourse, "lazily, Lazily, Drowsily, Drowsily, In The Noonday Sun."
Why Is This So Satisfactory? Because Although We May Not Know What A Word Means, Most Words Have A Pleasant Or Unpleasant Connotation, Each For Himself, Either Because Of The Ideas Or Images Thus Begotten, Of Hopes Or Memories Stirred Up, Or Merely For The Sound Of The Word Itself.

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