Aleister Crowley Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!

  Aleister Crowley

  New Year, Courage, Fall

  Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.139, Booklassic

• As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow.

  Aleister Crowley

  Self Confidence, Men, Numbers

  "Magick Without Tears". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 73, 1954.

• In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

  Aleister Crowley

  Willpower, Talent, Virtue

• Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

  Aleister Crowley

  Selfish, Love Is, Ideas

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

• Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

  Aleister Crowley

  Order, Understanding, Enlightenment

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