The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such.

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir Humphrey Davy noted when self-experimenting with nitrous oxide in 1819, and as Buddha noticed by sitting alone until all his social imprints atrophied and dropped away.

Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don’t know you're a member until it’s too late to get out.