Aleister crowley

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

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

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

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.

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

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