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

Quote by Aleister Crowley

Topics: Aleister Crowley Quotes

Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely...

Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely...

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank...

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank...

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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

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

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly...

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly...

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change,...

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change,...

Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at...

Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at...

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so...

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so...

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for...

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for...

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a...

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a...

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of...

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of...

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take...

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take...

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that...

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that...

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

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

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

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes...

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes...

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

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