Aleister Crowley Quotes

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

Things aren't black and white in the world.

The more I know, the less I understand

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.

One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life.

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

Either is both, and Both is neither.

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

Nothing is always absolutely so

It's all very simple, or else it's all very complex, or perhaps it's neither, or both.

Life is not black and white when it comes to perception.

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

Nothing is black or white.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.

I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is