Aleister Crowley

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”

“Love is the law, love under will.”

“To inflame thyself with prayer.”

“Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.”

“A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.”

“For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.”

“Every man and every woman is a star.”

“I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.”

“The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual impossibilities.”

“Imagination is the faculty of the soul.”

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

“Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.”

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

“The key of joy is disobedience.”

“Intolerance is a sign of impotence.”

“The people who have really made history are the martyrs.”

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