Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one; yet this is exactly the stand point from which all uninitiates contemplate the universe. Obviously, they miss the music.

The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.

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

When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God.

Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.

I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.