Aleister Crowley Quotes

Light is the symbol of truth.

Light itself is a revelation.

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.

The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.

CONTEMPLATE THE workings of this world, listen to the words of the wise, and take all that is good as your own. With this as your base, open your own door to truth. Do not overlook the truth that is right before you.

Now that I am dead, I know everything.

People, since the beginning of time, have always tried to understand the universe through love.

You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

I would like to uncover the secrets of the universe.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Time discovers truth.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.