Quotes Aleister Crowley

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
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.
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
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.
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 pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
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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