84 Top Quotes By Aleister Crowley, The Author Of The Book Of The Law
Edward Alexander Crowley, who came to be more popularly known as Aleister Crowlay, was a magician, occultist, painter, writer, active mountaineer and religious ideologue from England, who courted a lot of controversy during his lifetime but is still considered among the most famous Britons. Crowley was born in 1875 in a wealthy family and developed an interest in writing poetry and climbing mountains during his time at the prestigious University of Cambridge. He also learned ceremonial magic from the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and then went to India in order to learn more about Hinduism and Buddhism. Crowley wrote a considerable number of books on occult practices and in addition to that, he had also turned over a large number of novels and poetry collections during his career. However, his most important contribution as an occultists and religious ideologue was the establishment of the religion Thelema. Crowley’s fiercely libertine activities made him a controversial figure and his love life, drug usage and views attracted the wrath of British society. Some people even believe that he was actually a member of the British intelligence agency and even Crowley had himself claimed that once. There is no doubt that Crowley is one of the most fascinating characters from history and here are some of his most famous quotes.
I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.
One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!
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.
Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.
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 will.
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.
I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.
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.
Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.
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.
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.
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
Love is the law, love under will.
It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.
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.
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them...
Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.
We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.
Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations
![To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/aleister-crowley-1943.jpg)
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
