''Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.''
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 50 (1929, rev. 1970). ''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.''
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 23 (1929, rev. 1970). When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one's physical powers and the character of the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then e...
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 67 (1929, rev. 1970). The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to ...
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 65 (1929, revised 1970). If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister...
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 4 (1929, rev. 1970). Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see e...
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 56 (1929, revised 1970). ''Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.''
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 57 (1929, rev. 1970). ''Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.''
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 49 (1929, revised 1970). To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes ...
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 68 (1929, revised 1970). ''Intolerance is evidence of impotence.''
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 69 (1929, revised 1970).

''Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.''
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 8 (1929, revised 1970).