For I am the spirit that denies! And rightly too; for all that doth begin should rightly to destruction run; 'twere better then that naught should be.
— Jack Parsons Contemporary

Rocket scientist, occultist

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Context

Quoting Goethe's Faust, but often used by Parsons to express his own philosophy in letters/writings

Date / Period

1940s

Category

Controversial

Source

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/147171.Jack_Parsons

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