Aleister Crowley Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The key of joy is disobedience.

  Aleister Crowley

  Keys, Joy, Disobedience

  Aleister Crowley, “Hymn To Lucifer”

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Real, Reality, Magic

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• Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.

  Aleister Crowley

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  James Wasserman, Nancy Wasserman, Aleister Crowley (2013). “To Perfect This Feast: A Performance Commentary on the Gnostic Mass”, p.83, Red Wheel/Weiser

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Aleister Crowley

  Life, Mistake, Mean

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

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• A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.

  Aleister Crowley

  Children, White, Perfect

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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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• Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.

  Aleister Crowley

  Light, World, Welcome

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Magick in Theory and Practice”, p.70, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Lying, Self, Way

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.78, Weiser Books

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• I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

  Aleister Crowley

  Father, Cutting, Men

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 66, 1969.

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• To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and with the minimum of disturbance or friction. That is Magick. To stop the mind altogether. That is Yoga.

  Aleister Crowley

  Moving, Yoga, Mind

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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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• One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions.

  Aleister Crowley

  Doubt, Elements, Next

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

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• The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.

  Aleister Crowley

  Integrity, Ambition, Principles

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• Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love Is, Principles, Tolerable

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Education, Memories, Philosophical

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

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