Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.

Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

Om is the bow, the arrow is soul.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.