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“The apparent discrepancy in the Gospel narrative aroused no doubt in my mind as to the literal truth of either of the texts. Indeed, my falling away from grace was not occasioned by any intellectual qualms; I accepted the theology of the Plymouth Brethren. In fact, I could hardly conceive of the existence of people who might doubt it. I simply went over to Satan's side; and to this hour I cannot tell why.”

Aleister Crowley

Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 5.

“Yea! as I loath, I lust; I prostitute myself to thee, perversely prurient - Wilt thou not make this night the nameless nuptial, the Devil thy Lord and mine at Our Black Mass?”

Aleister Crowley

Source: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 296

“The Book of the Law is Written and Concealed.”

Aleister Crowley book The Book of the Law

The Book of the Law (1904)

“I am alone. There is no God where I am.”

Aleister Crowley book The Book of the Law

II:23.
The Book of the Law (1904)

“Sing the rapturous love-song unto me! Burn to me perfumes! Wear to me jewels! Drink to me, for I love you! I love you!”

Aleister Crowley book The Book of the Law

The Book of the Law (1904)

“The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.”

Aleister Crowley book The Book of the Law

I:63-66.
The Book of the Law (1904)

“Come, Come, Come, Aiwaz! Come, thou Devil Our Lord!”

Aleister Crowley

Source: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 239

“I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?”

Aleister Crowley

Aceldama : A Place To Bury Strangers In (1898) Preface.

“The customer is usually wrong; but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so.”

Aleister Crowley book Magick Without Tears

Ch XXI.
Magick Without Tears (1954)

“These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools.”

Aleister Crowley book The Book of the Law

I:11.
The Book of the Law (1904)

“His own infinity becomes zero in relation to that of the least fragment of the solid. He hardly exists at all. Trillions multiplies by trillions of trillions of such as he could not cross the frontier even of breadth, the idea which he came to guess at only because he felt himself bound by some mysterious power.”

Aleister Crowley

Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)

“I believe in one secret and ineffable LORD; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name CHAOS, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes.
And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name BABALON.”

Aleister Crowley

III Of the Ceremony of the Introit, including what is called the "Creed of the Gnostic Catholic Church" http://www.hermetic.com/egc/creed.html. <br class="br">Liber XV : The Gnostic Mass (1913)

“Intolerance is evidence of impotence.”

Aleister Crowley

Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 69.

“I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy.”

Aleister Crowley book The Book of the Law

I:13.
The Book of the Law (1904)

“The definition of self-respect contains a clause to include pitiless contempt for some other class. … English society is impregnated from top to bottom with this spirit. The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.”

Aleister Crowley

Ch, 3.
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

“May Because be accursed for ever!”

Aleister Crowley book The Book of the Law

II:28-29.
The Book of the Law (1904)

“I invoked Aiwaz, was shown a phantasm of Baphomet, and suddenly determined to recognize this for Him!”

Aleister Crowley

Source: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 140

“When I was Levi, I drew myself as Ayin or Baphomet, 'The Devil' with Beast's Head. This is the Beast throned, crowned, exalted; the leaper, the erect, the butter-in. Her womb is my city, Babel. This Ayin is then my phallic will, my Holy Guardian Angel, Aiwaz, who was afterwards called Satan.”

Aleister Crowley

Source: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 198

“Knowledge is power; knowledge shared is power lost.”

Aleister Crowley

This has been attributed to Crowley on the internet, but without citation. No incidents of it in Crowley's works have as yet been located.
This was quoted as an "occult tradition" in Fundamentals of Experimental Psychology (1976) by Charles Lawrence Sheridan, p. 17, but without any reference to Crowley.
Disputed
Variant: Knowledge is power and knowledge shared is power lost.

“The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.”

Aleister Crowley

Source: Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929), Ch. 13 : Of the Banishings and of the Purifications.