Aleister Crowley Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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 anything without reproach.”

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

“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.”

“In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.”

“The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.”

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”

“If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.”

“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.”

“The people who have really made history are the martyrs.”