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Quotes from The Confessions of Aleister Crowley — Aleister Crowley

1875–1947 England

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No event can be fairly judged without background and perspective.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

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

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

Men and women will never behave worthily as long as current morality interferes with the legitimate satisfaction of physiological needs. Nature always avenges herself on those who insult her.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

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

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

The salacious musical comedy goes its libidinous way rejoicing, while Ibsen and Bernard Shaw are on the black list.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

Magick, mysticism, and the mathematics are triplets.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

One theory of the name is that it represents the words βαφὴ μήτεος, the baptism of wisdom; another, that it is a corruption of a title meaning "Father Mithras".

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

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.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

As long as sexual relations are complicated by religious, social and financial considerations, so long will they cause all kinds of cowardly, dishonourable and disgusting behaviour.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

I have known a printer object to set up "We gave them hell and Tommy", while passing unquestioned all sorts of things to which exception could quite reasonably be taken by narrow-minden imbeciles.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

I had taken the name Baphomet as my motto in the O.T.O. For six years and more I had tried to discover the proper way to spell this name.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

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.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

I embrace hardship and privation with ecstatic delight; I want everything the world holds; I would go to prison or to the scaffold for the sake of the experience. I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

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