Aleister Crowley Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle

  Aleister Crowley

  Law, Assuming, Herds

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• It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.

  Aleister Crowley

  People, Trying, Needs

  Aleister Crowley (1986). “Book of Lies”, 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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• 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.

  Aleister Crowley

  Pain, Exercise, Thinking

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.7, Weiser Books

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Conquer, Prestige, Death And Dying

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.255, Weiser Books

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• I believe in one secret and ineffable Lord; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name Chaos, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes. And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name Babalon.

  Aleister Crowley

  Mother, Stars, Father

  "Liber XV, The Gnostic Mass". Book by Aleister Crowley, www.scarletwoman.org. 1913.

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• Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

  Aleister Crowley

  Intolerance, Evidence, Fetish

  Aleister Crowley, (2013). “The Writings of the Great Beast - Some Short Stories by Aleister Crowley (Fantasy and Horror Classics)”, p.7, Read Books Ltd

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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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• 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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• 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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• Sex is the sacred song of the soul; Sex is the sanctuary of Self.

  Aleister Crowley

  Song, Sex, Self

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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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