Aleister Crowley Quotes

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

Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.

When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God.

It will be seen that the formula – ‘Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law’ has nothing to do with ‘Do as you please.’ It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations.

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

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

Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.