Quotes from Aleister Crowley

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!

Love is the law, love under will.

I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .

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

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.

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.

What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!

Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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

There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, 'Garcon! Un Pernod!'

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

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

The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God.

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.

The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.

This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.