The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

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.

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

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life....

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

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

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

...in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgement and practice than in any other branch of physics.