Peter J. Carroll Quotes

Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.

WE CAN ONLY ESCAPE THE BLOODY AND IGNORANT NIGHTMARE OF HISTORY BY EXPLORING ALTERNATIVES WHICH TODAY LOOK FRIGHTENINGLY WEIRD.

If someone claims to have free will, ask them, free from precisely what?

We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.

Half of the skill in magick consists of identifying probabilities worth enhancing.

In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects.

He who is doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe.

Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.

The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.

Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents.

Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles.

It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.

Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.

Those who self-righteously value their own contradictions are mighty on this Earth.

Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.

That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.

Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.

We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method; should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet?

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

Magic doesn't suit everyone. Only those prepared to take full responsibility for themselves should apply.

Never join a conspiracy that you could possibly betray, because if you could, someone else will.