Aleister Crowley quotes - page 3

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige. (Aleister Crowley)
Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence. View quote
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The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules-but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them. View quote
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I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. View quote
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It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth. View quote
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The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices. View quote
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Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee. View quote
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Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations. View quote
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Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell. View quote
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He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason. View quote
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Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it. (Aleister Crowley)
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall! View quote
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I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession. View quote
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Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results - of an extremely temporary nature. View quote
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To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. View quote
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I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. View quote
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I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view. View quote
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The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth! View quote
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Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty. View quote
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Your kiss is bitter with cocaine. View quote
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We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed. (Aleister Crowley)
Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think! View quote
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The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully. View quote
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This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love. View quote
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Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle. View quote
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