Aleister Crowley

Every man and woman is a star.

— Aleister Crowley

“I am perplexed”

— Aleister Crowley

The word of Sin is Restriction

— Aleister Crowley

The key of joy is disobedience.

— Aleister Crowley

Sanity is a compromise.

— Aleister Crowley

A burnt child dreads the fire.

— Aleister Crowley

Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

— Aleister Crowley

Love is the law, love under will.

— Aleister Crowley

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

— Aleister Crowley

Every man and every woman is a star.

— Aleister Crowley

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

— Aleister Crowley

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

— Aleister Crowley

“There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.”

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Aleister Crowley

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Aleister Crowley

“There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Love is the law, love under will.”

— Aleister Crowley

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to…

— Aleister Crowley

“If Osiris, Christ, and Mahomet were mad, then indeed is madness the key to the door of the Temple.”

— Aleister Crowley

When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the…

— Aleister Crowley

“By doing certain things certain results will follow. Students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophical validity to any…

— Aleister Crowley

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and…

— Aleister Crowley

How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as…

— Aleister Crowley

“Remember that unbalanced force is evil; that unbalanced severity is but cruelty and oppression; but that also unbalanced mercy is but weakness…

— Aleister Crowley

To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the…

— Aleister Crowley

The intention of this Book of The Law is perfectly simple. Whatever your sexual predilections may be, you are free, by the…

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Aleister Crowley

“Shameful confession, one of my own Chelas (or so it is rather incredibly reported to me) said recently: "Self-discipline is a form…

— Aleister Crowley

“Every individual has some qualities that endear him to some other. And per contra, I doubt if there is any class which…

— Aleister Crowley

I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then…

— Aleister Crowley

“I am only sipping the second glass of that "fascinating, but subtle poison, whose ravages eat men's heart and brain" that I…

— Aleister Crowley

It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent…

— Aleister Crowley

“ OLYMPAS: There is one doubt. When souls attain Such an unimagined gain Shall not others mark them, wise Beyond mere mortal…

— Aleister Crowley

Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people…

— Aleister Crowley

“In order to possess "The Wonder-working Serpent," it is necessary, in the words of the Grimoire, "to buy an egg without haggling,"…

— Aleister Crowley

Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!

— Aleister Crowley

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

— Aleister Crowley