Aleister Crowley

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#education

Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#nature

One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#atheism #bible #religion #religion

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall! ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#new-year #courage

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#thelema #willful-ignorance #sin

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

— Aleister Crowley

#shall #thou #whole #wilt

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#humour #humor

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#always #cleverness #discovering #fuss #magical

Every man and every woman is a star. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#liberalism

Your kiss is bitter with cocaine. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#drugs