Aleister Crowley Quotes:
Aleister Crowley was an occultist, ritual sorcerer, poet, painter, mountaineer and writer from England. He created Thelema’s faith, describing himself as the prophet entrusted in the early 20th century to lead humanity into Horus’s person.
Aleister Crowley
Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
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.
Aleister Crowley
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Aleister Crowley
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
Aleister Crowley
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
Aleister Crowley
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.
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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Aleister Crowley
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
Aleister Crowley
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
Aleister Crowley
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
Aleister Crowley
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
Aleister Crowley
Wholesome Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Aleister Crowley
I have never grown out of the infantile beliefXZC that the universe was made for me to suck.
Aleister Crowley
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Aleister Crowley
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
Aleister Crowley
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
Aleister Crowley
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
Aleister Crowley