Aleister Crowley Quotes

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

If I had to sum it up, the goal of Scientology is giving the person back to themselves. Like, your own power of choice.

The disciplined are free.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

Freedom is internal. Another group cannot give you freedom.

Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.

One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves; we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.

All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.

The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.

We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

Only you yourself can be your liberator!

Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it.

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts