Quotes by
Aleister Crowley |
1875-1945 , British magician & occultist,
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Quotations
| • | Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle. 10 |
| • | In the absence of will-power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. 9 |
| • | Intolerance is evidence of impotence. 9 |
| • | I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated. 8 |
| • | The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn’t pay to tell him so. 8 |
| • | You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people. 6 |
| • | Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion. 6 |
| • | One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad. 6 |
| • | Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. 6 |
| • | The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. 6 |
| • | Every man and every woman is a star. 6 |
| • | Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. 5 |
| • | The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. 5 |
| • | As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. 5 |
| • | To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. 5 |
| • | Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty. 4 |
| • | Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. 4 |
| • | I am alone. There is no God where I am. 4 |
| • | 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. 3 |
Latin Quotes
| • | By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe. Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. (or V.V.V.V.V.; mentioned also in the graphic novel “V for Vendetta”) 139 |