Aleister Crowley Quotes

I can't not be who I am.

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.

Being myself is what got me to where I am.

I truly want what you truly want-nothing different and nothing more. Don't you see that is My greatest gift to you? If I wanted for you something other than what you want for you, and then went so far as to cause you to have it, where is your free choice? How can you be a creative being if I am dictating what you shall be, do, and have? My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance.

To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

I am not a number, I am a free man!

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for instance, that I will something or other; but what relation this has with freedom I cannot understand at all. I feel that I will to light my pipe and I do it; but how can I connect this up with the idea of freedom? What is behind the act of willing to light the pipe ? Another act of willing?

I don't know what it is I exude. But whatever it is, it's whatever I am!

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.

Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.

Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail.

Remember to be yourself.

God made me the way that I am and it’s my business to be true to that.

I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.

You must do what you want.

Free will means that you have the choice to connect to spirit... or not.

I am the me I choose to be.

Always try to be yourself.

In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined.

My reason taught me that I could not have made one of my own qualities - they were forced upon me by Nature; that my language, religion, and habits were forced upon me by Society; and that I was entirely the child of Nature and Society; that Nature gave the qualities and Society directed them. Thus was I forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught by man.