We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.
Aleister CrowleyWhat is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfill them, and rejoice therein.
Aleister CrowleyI hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.
Aleister CrowleyIt is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.
Aleister Crowley