Aleister Crowley

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

“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!”

“Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man devotes his material wealth to lofty ends, the advancement of science, or art, or some such true ideal; and that the base man does the opposite by concentrating all his abilities on the amassing of wealt...”

“The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.”

“The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.”

“Belief is the enemy of knowledge.”