{"author":"Aleister Crowley","author_id":"Aleister+Crowley","total_quotes":78,"quotes":[{"text":"The love and war in the previous injunctions are of the nature of sport, where one respects, and learns from the opponent, but never interferes with him, outside the actual game. To seek to dominate or influence another is to seek to deform or destroy him; and he is a necessary part of one's own Universe, that is, of one's self.","author":"Aleister Crowley","tags":["aleister-crowley","death","games","philosophy","psychology","truth","war","wisdom"],"id":773,"author_id":"Aleister+Crowley"},{"text":"Lisa was thinking, as she climbed the apparently unending staircase, the she had taken pretty long odds. She had not hesitated to buck the Tiger, Life. Simon Iff had warned her that she was acting on impulse. But--on the top of that--he had merely urged her to be true to it. She swore once more that she would stick to her guns. The black mood fell from her. She turned and looked upon the sea, now far below. The sun, a hollow orb of molten glory, hung quivering in the mist of the Mediterranean; and Lisa entered for a moment into a perfect peace of spirit. She became once with Nature, instead of a being eternally at war with it.","author":"Aleister Crowley","tags":["contrast","dissonance","imagery","nature"],"id":5887,"author_id":"Aleister+Crowley"},{"text":"Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!","author":"Aleister Crowley","tags":["life","occultism","the-occult","universe"],"id":13081,"author_id":"Aleister+Crowley"},{"text":"The fact is that very few of us know what words mean; fewer still take the trouble to enquire. We calmly, we carelessly assume that our minds are identical with that of the writer, at least on that point; and then we wonder that there should be misunderstandings!The fact is (again!) that usually we don't really want to know; it is so very much easier to drift down the river of discourse, 'lazily, lazily, drowsily, drowsily, In the noonday sun.'Why is this so satisfactory? Because although we may not know what a word means, most words have a pleasant or unpleasant connotation, each for himself, either because of the ideas or images thus begotten, of hopes or memories stirred up, or merely for the sound of the word itself.","author":"Aleister Crowley","tags":["1944","communication","language"],"id":14871,"author_id":"Aleister+Crowley"},{"text":"Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2).","author":"Aleister Crowley","tags":["1909","qabala","understanding","wisdom"],"id":15139,"author_id":"Aleister+Crowley"},{"text":"Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgement and practice than in any other branch of physics.","author":"Aleister Crowley","tags":["1929","art","judgement","magick","opportunity","physics","practice","science"],"id":27719,"author_id":"Aleister+Crowley"},{"text":"I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.","author":"Aleister Crowley","tags":["humor","humour"],"id":29012,"author_id":"Aleister+Crowley"},{"text":"There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.Love is the law, love under will.","author":"Aleister Crowley","tags":["aleister-crowley","book-of-the-law","law","magick","occult"],"id":34255,"author_id":"Aleister+Crowley"},{"text":"In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them.","author":"Aleister Crowley","tags":["magick","reality"],"id":34414,"author_id":"Aleister+Crowley"},{"text":"And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won't find you have any time to get bored.","author":"Aleister Crowley","tags":["1922","boredom","keeping-busy","thelema","true-will"],"id":43670,"author_id":"Aleister+Crowley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":78,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}