The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

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