Top 25 Quotes by Aleister Crowley

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

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.

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.

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.