Aleister Crowley Quotes

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.
Aleister Crowley

Life, Change, Experience

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

Absence, Complete, Talents

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

Mad, Seriously, Bible

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

Faith, Morning, Doubt

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.
Aleister Crowley

Him, Become, Sense

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

Law, Whole, Shall

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.
Aleister Crowley

Education, Mind, Worth

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

Nature, Drunk, Fighting

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

Science, Wisdom, Making

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
Aleister Crowley

Morality, Ordinary

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

Made, Universe, Belief

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.
Aleister Crowley

Difficult, Physics, Practice

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

Good, Understand, Memory

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
Aleister Crowley

Evidence, Impotence

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
Aleister Crowley

Life, Facts, Faces

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
Aleister Crowley

Hell, Able, Fact

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.
Aleister Crowley

Science, Study, Guilty

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Aleister Crowley

Fear, Another, Child

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Aleister Crowley

History, Made, Martyrs

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.
Aleister Crowley

Woman, Kiss, Touch

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
Aleister Crowley

Everyone, Fact, Guilty

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

Person, Looking, Mountain

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

Book, Mankind, Gods

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
Aleister Crowley

Wild, Principle, Chinese

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Aleister Crowley

Evil, Makes, Exist

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Critic

Born: October 12, 1875

Died: December 1, 1947

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