Top 180 Aleister Crowley Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Belief is the enemy of knowledge.”

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Aleister Crowley

53. “Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one; yet this is exactly the stand point from which all uninitiates contemplate the universe. Obviously, they miss the music.”

— Aleister Crowley

54. “This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity.”

— Aleister Crowley

55. “For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union.”

— Aleister Crowley

56. “Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.”

— Aleister Crowley

57. “Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light.”

— Aleister Crowley

58. “The word of Sin is Restriction.”

— Aleister Crowley

59. “The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.”

— Aleister Crowley

60. “The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn’t pay to tell him so.”

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Aleister Crowley

62. “Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results – of an extremely temporary nature.”

— Aleister Crowley

63. “Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!”

— Aleister Crowley

64. “What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!”

— Aleister Crowley

65. “We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.”

— Aleister Crowley

66. “The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.”

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Aleister Crowley

68. “It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one’s environment.”

— Aleister Crowley

69. “The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!”

— Aleister Crowley

70. “Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart.”

— Aleister Crowley

71. “The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept.”

— Aleister Crowley

72. “I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.”

— Aleister Crowley

73. “Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one’s neighbor is superior to oneself.”

— Aleister Crowley

74. “Remember that unbalanced force is evil; that unbalanced severity is but cruelty and oppression; but that also unbalanced mercy is but weakness which would allow and abet Evil. Act passionately; think rationally; be Thyself.”

— Aleister Crowley

75. “Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.”

— Aleister Crowley

76. “The people who have really made history are the martyrs.”

— Aleister Crowley

77. “The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.”

— Aleister Crowley

78. “One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.”

— Aleister Crowley

79. “What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfill them, and rejoice therein.”

— Aleister Crowley

80. “Those magicians who object to the use of blood, have endeavored to replace it with incense. But, the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious. And for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is the best.”

— Aleister Crowley

81. “I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.”

— Aleister Crowley

82. “To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the symbol of all vileness, meanness, treachery, falsehood and oppression.”

— Aleister Crowley

83. “The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.”

— Aleister Crowley

84. “Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.”

— Aleister Crowley

85. “Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man’s brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn’t understand you at all.”

— Aleister Crowley

86. “It’s no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.”

— Aleister Crowley

87. “Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.”

— Aleister Crowley

88. “Practise a thousand times, and it becomes difficult; a thousand thousand, and it becomes easy; a thousand thousand times a thousand thousand, and it is no longer Thou that doeth it, but It that doeth itself through thee.”

— Aleister Crowley

89. “Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out! The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.”

— Aleister Crowley

90. “I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.”

— Aleister Crowley

91. “There is no bond that can unite the divided but love.”

— Aleister Crowley

92. “Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.”

— Aleister Crowley

93. “Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.”

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Aleister Crowley

95. “I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, ″Of couse I am – sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back.”

— Aleister Crowley

96. “The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.”

— Aleister Crowley

97. “Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them...”

— Aleister Crowley

98. “There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.”

— Aleister Crowley

99. “30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.”

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Aleister Crowley