Quotes by Crowley, Aleister

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

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enorm >>

Indubitably, Magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sc >>

Quotations about Doctrine

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man. >>

It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wa >>

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to hav >>

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.

Crowley, Aleister