Aleister Crowley Quotes

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.

People are either good or they're not. Religion doesn't make anybody good, I don't think.

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is Good.

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.