1. “Practically Science is true; and Faith is foolish.”
2. “It is the mar of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its judgements for absolute.”
3. “Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.”
4. “In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.”
5. “Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.”
6. “Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.”
7. “Intolerance is evidence of impotence.”
8. “What the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over.”
9. “The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.”
10. “The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within not without.”
11. “The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.”
12. “Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.”
13. “Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.”
14. “Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are .”
15. “Sanity is a compromise.”
16. “We must conquer life by living it to the full and then we go to meet death with certain prestige.”
17. “A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.”
18. “Every man and every woman is a star.”
19. “The key of joy is disobedience.”
20. “Every intentional act is a magical act.”
21. “The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.”
22. “It’s no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.”
23. “Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.”
24. “Magic is real. And reality… it is magical.”
25. “The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.”
26. “It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one’s environment.”
27. “Balance every thought wit its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.”
28. “The more necessary anything appear to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.”
29. “You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.”
30. “Happiness lies within one’s self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.”
