Top 180 Aleister Crowley Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”

— Aleister Crowley

2. “Every man and every woman is a star.”

— Aleister Crowley

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3. “Love is the law, love under will.”

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Aleister Crowley

5. “By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.”

— Aleister Crowley

6. “Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.”

— Aleister Crowley

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7. “Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.”

— Aleister Crowley

8. “I am alone. There is no God where I am.”

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Aleister Crowley

10. “Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one’s conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.”

— Aleister Crowley

11. “The key of joy is disobedience.”

— Aleister Crowley

12. “To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and with the minimum of disturbance or friction. That is Magick. To stop the mind altogether. That is Yoga.”

— Aleister Crowley

13. “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.”

— Aleister Crowley

14. “Every intentional act is a magical act.”

— Aleister Crowley

15. “Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.”

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Aleister Crowley

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17. “Magick is the Art of Life itself.”

— Aleister Crowley

18. “This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade ‘Know Thyself!’ and taught Initiation.”

— Aleister Crowley

19. “There is no part of me that is not of the Gods.”

— Aleister Crowley

20. “We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.”

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Aleister Crowley

22. “Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.”

— Aleister Crowley

23. “It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people’s business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.”

— Aleister Crowley

24. “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.”

— Aleister Crowley

25. “May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!”

— Aleister Crowley

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26. “Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!”

— Aleister Crowley

27. “I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered – now I have only one doubt left – which of the twain was God?”

— Aleister Crowley

28. “What the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over.”

— Aleister Crowley

29. “Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.”

— Aleister Crowley

30. “Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It’s worth it.”

— Aleister Crowley

31. “I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul.”

— Aleister Crowley

32. “The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules – but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.”

— Aleister Crowley

33. “Sex is the sacred song of the soul; Sex is the sanctuary of Self.”

— Aleister Crowley

34. “For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.”

— Aleister Crowley

35. “I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .”

— Aleister Crowley

36. “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.”

— Aleister Crowley

37. “Intolerance is evidence of impotence.”

— Aleister Crowley

38. “Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis!”

— Aleister Crowley

39. “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.”

— Aleister Crowley

40. “The intention of this Book of The Law is perfectly simple. Whatever your sexual predilections may be, you are free, by the Law of Thelema, to the the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing.”

— Aleister Crowley

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41. “Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.”

— Aleister Crowley

42. “A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.”

— Aleister Crowley

43. “A burnt child dreads the fire.”

— Aleister Crowley

44. “Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.”

— Aleister Crowley

45. “I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.”

— Aleister Crowley

46. “The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility.”

— Aleister Crowley

47. “Happiness lies within one’s self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.”

— Aleister Crowley

48. “He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.”

— Aleister Crowley

49. “Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle.”

— Aleister Crowley

50. “It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.”

— Aleister Crowley