Aleister Crowley Quotes


30 quotes:

"There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: ''More money for more work.''"
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair."
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: Nature Quotes Nuclear Age Quotes
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law"
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: Law Quotes
"Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not."
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: Romance Quotes Insanity Quotes
"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another"
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: Falsehood Quotes
"To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them."
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: Eyes Quotes Humankind Quotes
"Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle."
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people."
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes Morality Quotes
"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner."
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes Memory Quotes
"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."
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: Faith Quotes English Critic 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."
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life."
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes Facts Quotes
"Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales."
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes Facts Quotes
"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"The people who have really made history are the martyrs."
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: History Quotes English Critic Quotes
"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes Evil Quotes
"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."
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes Magic Quotes

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