Aleister Crowley Quotes

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• You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.

  Aleister Crowley

  People, Opinion, Disregard

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• The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes... This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation. He is 'The Devil' of the Book of Thoth, and His emblem is BAPHOMET, the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection... He is therefore Life, and Love.

  Aleister Crowley

  Life And Love, Book, Men

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Balance, Illusion, Destruction

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• A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Inertia, Universe

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.

  Aleister Crowley

  People, Ignorant, Path

  Aleister Crowley (1975). “The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1”, Weiser Books

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• The key of joy is disobedience.

  Aleister Crowley

  Keys, Joy, Disobedience

  Aleister Crowley, “Hymn To Lucifer”

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• There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!

  Aleister Crowley

  Law, Grace, Guilt

  Aleister Crowley (1975). “The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1”, Weiser Books

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• Magic is real. And reality... it is magical.

  Aleister Crowley

  Real, Reality, Magic

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• Sanity is a compromise.

  Aleister Crowley

  Compromise, Sanity

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.37, Weiser Books

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• My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know, and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such beings.

  Aleister Crowley

  Quality, Chance, Nervous

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

  Aleister Crowley

  World, Stuff, Environment

  Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.211, Booklassic

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• Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

  Aleister Crowley

  People, Ordinary, Morality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Life, Mistake, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Aleister Crowley

  Mastery, Way, Break

  Aleister Crowley (1975). “The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1”, Weiser Books

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Art, Causing Change, Esoteric

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.93, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Mad, Religion, Atheism

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• The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so

  Aleister Crowley

  Statistics, Pay, Customers

  "Magick Without Tears". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 21, 1954.

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• 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.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Brain, Say Anything

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.250, Weiser Books

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• There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing.

  Aleister Crowley

  Stars, Principles, Orbit

  Aleister Crowley (1975). “The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1”, Weiser Books

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• Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.

  Aleister Crowley

  Philosophy, Independent, Greatness

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• Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

  Aleister Crowley

  Truth, Telling The Truth, Improbable

  Aleister Crowley (1907). “Konx Om Pax: Essays in Light”

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• What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

  Aleister Crowley

  Heart, Eye, Grieving

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.44, Weiser Books

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• Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

  Aleister Crowley

  Symphony, Silence, Thelema

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.173, Weiser Books

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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.

  Aleister Crowley

  Faith, Morning, Philosophical

  "The Book of Lies". Book by Aleister Crowley, 1913.

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• Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love Is, Principles, Tolerable

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