Quotes from Aleister Crowley

Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.

People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.

I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

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

Every man and every woman is a star.

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; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.

Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.

Love is the law, love under will.

Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.

It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life....

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

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

Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!