50 Quotes by Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley was a controversial English occultist and writer, known for his interest in the esoteric and his involvement in various secret societies. Crowley's work was deeply influenced by his interest in mysticism, and he sought to use his knowledge of magic to achieve personal transformation and spiritual enlightenment. Crowley's ideas and practices have been both celebrated and vilified over the years, and he remains a fascinating figure to those interested in the occult and the esoteric. (Bio)
Aleister Crowley Quotes
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over. (Meaning)
There is no part of me that is not of the Gods. (Quote Meaning)
A burnt child dreads the fire. (Meaning)
For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union. (Quote Meaning)
By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe. (Meaning)
The word of Sin is Restriction (Quote Meaning)
Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step. (Meaning)
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. (Quote Meaning)
The people who have really made history are the martyrs. (Meaning)
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. (Quote Meaning)
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad. (Meaning)
Intolerance is evidence of impotence. (Quote Meaning)
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life. (Meaning)
The Universe is the Practical Joke of the General at the Expense of the Particular. (Quote Meaning)
What is true for every School is equally true for every individual. Success in life, on the basis of the Law of Thelema, implies severe self-discipline. (Meaning)
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. (Quote Meaning)
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. (Meaning)
The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices. (Meaning)
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. (Quote Meaning)
Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence. (Meaning)
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. (Quote Meaning)
Magic is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. (Meaning)
Every man and every woman is a star. (Quote Meaning)
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. (Meaning)
Love is the law, love under will. (Quote Meaning)
I am alone. There is no God where I am. (Meaning)
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. (Quote Meaning)
A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him. (Meaning)
You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.
The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes... This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation. He is 'The Devil' of the Book of Thoth, and His emblem is BAPHOMET, the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection... He is therefore Life, and Love.
It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.
Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion. (Quote Meaning)
The key of joy is disobedience.
There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!
It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.
Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.
Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle
To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and with the minimum of disturbance or friction. That is Magick. To stop the mind altogether. That is Yoga.
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies. (Meaning)
Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.
Magic is real. And reality... it is magical.
Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.
Sanity is a compromise.
Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.
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.
My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know, and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such beings.
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.
The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so
There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing.
We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.
Sex is the sacred song of the soul; Sex is the sanctuary of Self.
The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.
― Aleister Crowley Quotes
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