Aleister Crowley Quotes

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Thought is made in the mouth.

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Man can no more think without words than see without light.

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

How I wish I were able to say what I think.

In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.

The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.

Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

There's been more than one time when I've said something, and sort of the middle of what I've said is not said but thought, and therefore assumed to be understood, which is a ridiculous assumption on my part, but sometimes gets me in trouble.

Reason and speech we onely bring.

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

It's really a trade-off: you're always having to decide whether you're going to say the more ambitious thing, and lose a little clarity - or are you going to say something really clearly, and sacrifice a little nuance? Get too obscure, and you sound like a pretentious asshole; go overboard with the clarity, and you sound like you're talking down to your audience, or like you yourself are a reductive simpleton.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'