Quotes by Aleister Crowley

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.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of ones 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.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

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.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

“A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.”

“Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them...”

“Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.”

“Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgement and practice than in any other branch of physics.”