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"Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith - some more than others. Since Satanism is essentially a religion of the self, it holds that the individual and his personal needs comes first. If that means playing with trains or spike-heeled shoes or singing in the bathtub, those are its sacraments and devotions. Taking inventory of old comic books is counting beads on a rosary, each book being a station of the cross."

The Most Powerful Religion by Anton LaVey

"There is something ticklish in "the truth" and in the search for the truth; and if a man goes about it too humanely, I wager he find nothing!"

"Beyond Good and Evil", Nietzsche, p50-51

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former"

Albert Einstein

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself"

Sir Richard F. Burton

"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven"

John Milton in Paradise Lost

"Does the dreadful form of personified evil only prompt you to smile?"

Eliphas Levi's "History of Magic"

Other people are dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

Oscar Wildes comment on egotism

Robert Browning on stupidity

Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.

St. Augustine

Poesis est vinum daemonum. (Poetry is the Devils wine).

Oscar Wilde on Xtian blind faith

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Apocrypha

Let our strength be the law of justice: for that wich is feeble is found to be nothing worth.