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.

A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm. For the highest spiritual working one must choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force; a male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory.

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an extent that I can hardly believe in the existence of people so debased and idiotic as to practice it.

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.