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

The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully.

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!

The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so

The key of joy is disobedience.

Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.

The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness.