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Aleister Crowley Quotes: 7

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.
Moonchild
One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.
Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
I've often thought that there isn't any "I"at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.
Diary of a Drug Fiend
Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them...
The Scented Garden Of Abdullah The Satirist Of Shiraz
Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgement and practice than in any other branch of physics.
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.
Cocaine: Impressions & Opinions