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.

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

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the symbol of all vileness, meanness, treachery, falsehood and oppression.

When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one's physical powers and the character of the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then every man one meets is an individual.