Top 35 Peter J. Carroll Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “He who is doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe.”

— Peter J. Carroll

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2. “In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects.”

— Peter J. Carroll

3. “If someone claims to have free will, ask them, free from precisely what?”

— Peter J. Carroll

4. “Magic doesn’t suit everyone. Only those prepared to take full responsibility for themselves should apply.”

— Peter J. Carroll

5. “The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.”

— Peter J. Carroll

6. “Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.”

— Peter J. Carroll

7. “Space, time, mass, and energy originate from Chaos, have their being in Chaos, and through th agency of the aether are moved by Chaos into the multiple forms of existence.”

— Peter J. Carroll

8. “That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.”

— Peter J. Carroll

9. “Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.”

— Peter J. Carroll

10. “As a great master once observed: “There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse.” Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water .”

— Peter J. Carroll

11. “We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.”

— Peter J. Carroll

12. “Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles.”

— Peter J. Carroll

13. “Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.”

— Peter J. Carroll

14. “So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end up bored with themselves, bereft of any depth of inner resources, suffocated by the inhibitions that defend their own monolithic identities.”

— Peter J. Carroll

15. “In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.”

— Peter J. Carroll

16. “Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.”

— Peter J. Carroll

17. “Matter can be conveniently divided for descriptive purposes into space, time, mass, and energy. However we can only describe any one of these phenomena in terms of the other three. Any definitions we care to make about matter are thus tautological .”

— Peter J. Carroll

18. “Flat Earth theory serves well enough for a trip from the cave to the water hole and back, and a third dimension going up into the sky and down underground serves to accommodate gods and devils A lot of people still think like that, believe it or not.”

— Peter J. Carroll

19. “In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.”

— Peter J. Carroll

20. “All Philosophy is Biography.”

— Peter J. Carroll

21. “Can we find “The Universe in a grain of sand”? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.”

— Peter J. Carroll

22. “Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents.”

— Peter J. Carroll

23. “Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.”

— Peter J. Carroll

24. “If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.”

— Peter J. Carroll

25. “It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.”

— Peter J. Carroll

26. “Half of the skill in magick consists of identifying probabilities worth enhancing.”

— Peter J. Carroll

27. “Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.”

— Peter J. Carroll

28. “As belief in one’s capabilities self-evidently leads to increasing capabilities, magicians consider it worthwhile to believe in their ability to accomplish the impossible, even if they only succeed at this occasionally.”

— Peter J. Carroll

29. “It is a mistake to consider any belief more liberated than another. It is the possibility of change which is important. Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents. There is no freedom from duality on this plane of existence, but one may at least aspire to choice of duality.”

— Peter J. Carroll

30. “Ideas about a person’s place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate. Subculture values will proliferate to such a bewildering extent that a whole new class of professionals will arise to control them. Such a Transmutation Technology will deal in fashions, in ways of being. Lifestyle consultants will become the new priests of our civilizations. They will be the new magicians.”

— Peter J. Carroll

31. “The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of slop marketed by those old hippies who now sell a user-friendly dilution of their original enlightenment.”

— Peter J. Carroll

32. “Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to co-ordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive measures.”

— Peter J. Carroll

33. “Never join a conspiracy that you could possibly betray, because if you could, someone else will.”

— Peter J. Carroll

34. “If in doubt, always attempt to force the hand of chance.”

— Peter J. Carroll

35. “Never discard the negative roots of any equation; always look at the dark side of any enlightenment.”

— Peter J. Carroll