Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.

The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.

Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.

The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!

It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.

People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.

What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfill them, and rejoice therein.