Top 25 Quotes by Aleister Crowley

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

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

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

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

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

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

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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.