Aleister Crowley Quotes

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

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

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

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

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

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.

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situated and the air reminds one curiously of Edinburgh.

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