Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.

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

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!