Aleister Crowley Quotes

Everything contains its antithesis.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

There's a lot more people that enjoy me playing the enforcer, the destroyer. If bad disappears one day, then good goes out of business.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth ... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

I'm all about polarities and juxtapositions.

In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.

I really like blending two things together that are polar opposites. Because I feel like, in a large aspect, that's kinda like what I am.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.