In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Happiness lies within one’s self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.
I was not content to just believe in Satan. I wanted to be his chief or staff.
I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.
Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out! The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.
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.
For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union.
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade ‘Know Thyself!’ and taught Initiation.
We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!
The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
I’m a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.
The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.
Every intentional act is a magical act.
It’s no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.