“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”
“Love is the law, love under will.”
“Every man and every woman is a star.”
“Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.”
“The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, and constant change.”
“The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.”
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
“Your mind is a mirror; it reflects what you think.”
“Intolerance is evidence of impotence.”
“There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.”
“Balance every thought with its opposition, because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.”
“The ordinary man looks at a mountain and sees it as a mountain. The magician looks at a mountain and sees it as a temple of his God.”
“Magick is the art of life itself.”
“I am the warrior lord of the forties; the eighties cower before me, and are abased.”
“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”
“The true God is man.”
“Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.”
“The people who have really made history are the martyrs.”
“It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people’s business.”
“May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!”
“Every intentional act is a magickal act.”
“The mind is a myth; it is an illusion created by the mind itself.”
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
“Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.”
“To the eyes of a man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
“In the absence of willpower, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.”
“I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.”
“The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.”
“The way to master any field of endeavor is to practice it every day.”
“Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.”
“I can endure my own despair, but not another’s hope.”
“The key of joy is disobedience.”
“Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.”
“To insist upon doing things in the grand manner is extreme weakness.”
“A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.”
“The ordinary man has a long way to go before he becomes aware of the power of his thoughts.”
“The lust of result is the very cause of failure.”
“There is a secret joy in knowing that you are above the law.”
“Half of magic is knowing how to convince people that you have power over them.”
“Happiness lies within one’s self, and the way to dig it out is by expression of one’s own personality.”
“A thing is not true because it is paradoxical; it is paradoxical because it is true.”
“Remember that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows.”
“One must find a truth that is true for oneself.”
“The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous, and menacing.”
“Man has the right to live by his own law.”
“It is necessary to rise above love and hate and passion to attain the goal.”
“I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him in the ordinary sense; I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.”
“The soul’s immemorial quest is to understand itself.”
“All you need to do is to be yourself.”
“Do not imagine that art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence. Art is hard work, and it must have the reality of its own.”