"30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking……" — Aleister Crowley

"30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness."

— Aleister Crowley

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152 Quotes by Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley has 152 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to…
Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being…
Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round…
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent…
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery…
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will,…
What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover…
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If…
Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.
What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme,…

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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it… — Saint Augustine
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of… — Marcus Aurelius
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience… — James A. Baldwin
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action… — James A. Baldwin
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. — Joey Adams
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity,… — Charles Baudelaire
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. — Joseph Addison
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only… — Henry Ward Beecher
When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if… — Erma Bombeck
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he… — Samuel Butler
Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one… — Buzz Aldrin
Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some… — Nicolas Cage

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