Twentieth Century
- Margot Adler, witch and NPR reporter
- Antero Alli, author, artist, teacher
- Kenneth Anger, disciple of Crowley
- Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, occultist, occult author, teacher
- Fairuza Balk, actress, owner of witchcraft store
- Franz Bardon, occult author, magician
- Michael Bertiaux, author of the Voudon Gnostic Workbook, occult artist
- William S. Burroughs, author, member of the Illuminates of Thanateros
- W. E. Butler, esoteric author
- Laurie Cabot, witch, high priestess, author
- Christopher Penczak, Author
- D. J. Conway, Author
- Marjorie Cameron, Scarlet Woman of Jack Parsons' rituals, artist, actress
- Peter J. Carroll, occultist, author, founder of Chaos magic
- Carlos Castaneda, sorcerer, writer, anthropologist
- Jean Chevalier, occult author, philosopher, theologian
- Jinx Dawson, ceremonial magician, artist, recording artist
- Maya Deren, filmmaker and Haitian Vodou priestess
- Ramsey Dukes, occult author
- Gerina Dunwich, witch and occult author
- Julius Evola
- Dion Fortune, occult author
- Gerald Gardner, author and founder of the religion of Wicca
- H. R. Giger, artist, designer
- Kenneth Grant, occultist, author, pupil of Crowley
- Gregor A. Gregorius, occultist, author, founder of the lodge Fraternitas Saturni
- Manly Palmer Hall, occult author, teacher
- Frieda Harris, occultist, artist
- Max Heindel, author
- Phil Hine, occult author
- Murry Hope, occult author
- L. Ron Hubbard, author and founder of Scientology
- Christopher Hyatt, author, teacher, publisher
- Alejandro Jodorowsky, filmmaker, comic book writer
- Gareth Knight, occult author
- Dora van Gelder Kunz, occult author
- Roger de Lafforest, occult author
- Anton LaVey, occult author, founder of the Church of Satan
- Timothy Leary, psychologist, member of the Illuminates of Thanateros
- Sybil Leek, witch and occult author
- David Lynch filmmaker and transcendental meditation practitioner
- Martinus, Danish occultist
- Alan Moore, magician and comic creator
- Grant Morrison, comic writer and magician
- Jack Parsons, occultist, author, and rocket scientist
- Genesis P-Orridge, of Psychic TV video group and TOPY chaos magician
- Israel Regardie, occult author, magician, pupil of Aleister Crowley
- Jane Roberts, author
- Robin Skelton, British-Canadian witch, poet
- Starhawk, witch and occult author
- Rudolf Steiner, founder of anthroposophy
- Gerald Suster, occult author
- Mellie Uyldert, occult author
- Doreen Valiente, priestess and author
- Leila Waddell, mystic and muse
- Robert Anton Wilson, author
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Famous quotes related to twentieth century:
“The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assimiliationists with similar tastes, from similar backgrounds, and of similar pretensions, Langston Hughes will be to the twentieth century what Walt Whitman was to the nineteenth.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“... the nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. Not.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It’s another part of the twentieth-century mind. It’s the world seen from inside. We’ve come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film.... You have to ask yourself if there’s anything about us more important than the fact that we’re constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)