Aleister Crowley quotes

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. (Aleister Crowley)
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. View quote
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Intolerance is evidence of impotence. View quote
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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. View quote
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Every man and every woman is a star. View quote
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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. View quote
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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. View quote
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Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. View quote
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Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. View quote
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Love is the law, love under will. View quote
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In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. (Aleister Crowley)
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics. View quote
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I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff. View quote
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I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman. View quote
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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. View quote
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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. View quote
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The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. View quote
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Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life. View quote
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Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out! The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage. View quote
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The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so. View quote
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There is no part of me that is not of the Gods. (Aleister Crowley)
I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools. View quote
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I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA . View quote
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I believe in one secret and ineffable Lord; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name Chaos, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes. And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name Babalon. View quote
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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. View quote
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