Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
Doubt is really a groping ignorance.
What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.
There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.
The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.
To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.
Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.
I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.
I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.
We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.