Aleister Crowley Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Intolerance is evidence of impotence.”

“I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.”

“I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.”

“The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.”

“Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.”

“Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.”

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

“Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.”

“To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.”

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