If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad. Aleister Crowley Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle. Aleister Crowley Read Quote
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. Aleister Crowley Read Quote
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. Aleister Crowley Read Quote
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. Aleister Crowley Read Quote
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty. Aleister Crowley Read Quote
I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. Aleister Crowley Read Quote
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. Aleister Crowley Read Quote
The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one’s neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell. Aleister Crowley Read Quote