Aleister Crowley Quotes

Aleister Crowley — English Critic born on October 12, 1875, died on December 01, 1947

Aleister Crowley was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion and philosophy of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century... (wikipedia)

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's 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.

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.

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

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

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