Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley

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

Aleister Crowley
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
Aleister Crowley

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
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
Aleister Crowley

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
Aleister Crowley

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley

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

Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley

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

Aleister Crowley
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
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
Aleister Crowley

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

Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley

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.