I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations

The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.

Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.