Quotes by Aleister Crowley

About Aleister Crowley:

Aleister Crowley was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion and philosophy of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century.
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Remember in any case, that not only the Adept, but anyone with the smallest capacity for Adeptship, is fundamentally an Artist; he will certainly not possess any of those bourgeois "virtues" which are just so many reactions to Blue Funk.

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The mystic's idea of deliberately stupefying and stultifying himself is an "abomination unto the Lord." This, by the way, does not conflict with the rules of Yoga. That kind of suppression is comparable to the restrictions in athletic training, or di...

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Those, therefore, who effect to despise "profane" Science are themselves despicable. It is their own incapacity for true Thought of any serious kind, their vanity and pertness; nay more also! their own subconsciousness sense of their own shame and id...

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One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.

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But this is a general objection of the sceptical sort to all miracles of whatever kind, and leadeth anon into the quagmire of arguments about Free Will. The Adept will do better to rely upon , which urgeth constantly to action. Even rash action is be...

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Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them...

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The so-called poet with his vague dreams and ideals is indeed no better than a harmless lunatic; the true poet is the worker, who grips life's throat and wrings out its secret, who selects austerely and composes concisely, whose work is as true and c...

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No recorded vision is perfect, of high visions, for the seer must keep either his physical organs or his memory in working order. And neither is capable. There is no bridge. One can only be conscious of one thing at a time, and as the consciousness m...

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Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

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Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!

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Love in a night shall live and die, Love in a day shall wing and fly; Love in the Spring shall last an hour, Easily fade a spring-tide flower.

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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 simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

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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.

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I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

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Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

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Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anythin...

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

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Author Bio

  • NameAleister Crowley
  • Descriptionpoet, mountaineer, occultist
  • BornOctober 12, 1875
  • DiedDecember 1, 1947
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Novelist; Artist; Poet; Autobiographer; Writer; Mountaineer
  • WorksThe Book Of The Law