“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” “Love is the law, love under will.” “Every man and every woman is a star.” “There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.” “The word of Sin is Restriction.” “There is no grace, there is no guilt: this is the Law: Do what thou wilt!” Magick “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.” “In the absence of will-power the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.” “You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.” Life, will, and experience “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 set up an attainable ideal.” “Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.” “We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.” “Intolerance is evidence of impotence.” Religion, faith, doubt “One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.” “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 supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one’s neighbor… It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.” “I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him… I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.” “Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.” Wit and style “I’m a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.” “May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall.” “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.” “The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics.” Other well-known lines “I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union.” “The people who have really made history are the martyrs.” “Cleanliness is next to godliness, and had better come first.” “Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.” “Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out!”
