Aleister Crowley Quotes

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

I invoked Aiwaz, was shown a phantasm of Baphomet, and suddenly determined to recognize this for Him!

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

But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another.

When we've all finished talking, there's something that never utters a word, but goes right down through the earth, plumb to the centre.

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.

Fascism must always fail because it creates the discontent which it is designed to suppress.

Belief is the enemy of knowledge.

"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."

Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.

Yet by forcing the brain to accept propositions of which one set is absurdity, the other truism, a new function of brain is established.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

The so-called poet with his vague dreams and ideals is indeed no better than a harmless lunatic; the true poet is the worker, who grips life's throat and wrings out its secret, who selects austerely and composes concisely, whose work is as true and clean as razor-steel, albeit its sweep is vaster and swifter than the sun's!

I wrenched DOG backwards to find GOD; now GOD barks.

All this is true and false; and it is true and false to say that it is true and false.