The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

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

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

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.

Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light.

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

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