All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind; which is a more constant quantity over all the species of humanity than is generally supposed. Aleister Crowley More Quotes by Aleister Crowley More Quotes From Aleister Crowley The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Aleister Crowley inspirational philosophy life The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka. Aleister Crowley principles ambition integrity 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. Aleister Crowley spy police people I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. Aleister Crowley philosophical education memories If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon. Aleister Crowley worry men ideas It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment. Aleister Crowley environment stuff world Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations Aleister Crowley abyss hallucinations lord Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles. Aleister Crowley welcome light world Ever man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking. Aleister Crowley men long thinking To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd. Aleister Crowley submission financial use The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God. Aleister Crowley wise giving men The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it. Aleister Crowley men It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair. Aleister Crowley sun hair war It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth. Aleister Crowley process mind men I was not content to just believe in Satan. I wanted to be his chief or staff. Aleister Crowley staff satan believe Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. Aleister Crowley fake-people fear children The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in Magick; on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga. Aleister Crowley yoga two hands A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim. Aleister Crowley white perfect children I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession. Aleister Crowley alternatives opinion genius Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try as you will, you can find no reason for it. Suppose when you explore a previous incarnation, you remember you died by a poisoned administered in a wine of that kind, your aversion is explained by the proverb: 'A burnt child dreads the fire.' Aleister Crowley wine fire children
