Aleister Crowley Quotes

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis!

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

I was not content to just believe in Satan. I wanted to be his chief or staff.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

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!

Magick is the Art of Life itself.

Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are.

I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.

Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

The intention of this Book of The Law is perfectly simple. Whatever your sexual predilections may be, you are free, by the Law of Thelema, to the the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing.

Sanity is a compromise.

It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.

The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.

I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.

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.

A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.

There is no part of me that is not of the Gods.

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

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.

The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!

The word of Sin is Restriction

Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

Love is the law, love under will.

I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .

The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!

He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.

The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.

The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.

The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully.