Aleister Crowley Quotes

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• Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when…
• 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…
• Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the…
• 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 whenever they find themselves in…
• Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means…
• It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it;…
• What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those…
• 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 enough people come to agree…
• 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, the absolute of all…
• When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the…
• A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.
• The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. Â…
• The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most…
• It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to do with 'Do…
• This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!'…
• The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.
• All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself

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