In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects.
Peter J. CarrollIf only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.
Peter J. CarrollSome have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.
Peter J. CarrollWe doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.
Peter J. CarrollI regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably. I regard magick, in the traditional sense, as a kind of physics that we strive to understand and render more reliable. So it all comes down to the same thing, a quest to understand and manipulate the world with a self-consistent and coherent theory .
Peter J. Carroll