The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The 'lords of the earth' are those who are doing their Will. It does not necessarily mean people with coronets and automobiles;… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes... This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man,… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Remember that which is written: "Moderate strength rings the bell: great strength returns the penny." It is always the little bit extra that brings… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest -… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants.… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgement… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
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… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image