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"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The one place Gods inarguably exist is in our minds where they are real beyond refute, in all their grandeur and monstrosity." - Alan Moore
"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion." - Abraham Lincoln
"To what is One, sages give many a title." - Rig Veda Samhita 1.164.46
"Do what Thou Wilt shall be the Whole of the Law, Love is the Law, Love under Will." - Aleister Crowley / Fr. Baphomet
"Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals." - Doreen Valiente / Ameth
"All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries." - Starhawk
"In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love." - Bahá'u'lláh
"Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable." - Aleister Crowley / Fr. Baphomet
"Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be." - Emmanuel Swedenborg
"Radiate boundless love towards the entire world." - Shakyamuni Buddha
"Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling their delight as our own." - Emmanuel Swedenborg
"I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love." - William Blake
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Keep pure your highest ideal; strive ever toward it without allowing aught to stop you or turn you aside, even as a star sweeps upon its incalculable and infinite course of glory, and all is Love. The Law of your being becomes Light, Life, Love and Liberty. All is peace, all is harmony and beauty, all is joy." - Aleister Crowley / Fr. Baphomet
"In the twilight of life, G-d will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved." - San Juan de la Cruz
"Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out." - San Juan de la Cruz
"Being in love we create love, being in hate we create hate, and, the image of the universe being in ourselves, the love or hate we create acts equally upon us. This is the great pragmatism of Magick." - Jack Whiteside Parsons,
"Love in its essence is spiritual fire." - Emmanuel Swedenborg
"There is no remedy for love but to love more." - Henry David Thoreau
"For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union." - Aleister Crowley / Fr. Baphomet
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet." - Plato
"The things that we love tell us what we are." Thomas Aquinas
"I know of only one duty, and that is to love." Albert Camus
"The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes." - Voltaire
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." - Plato
"Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others." - Denis Diderot
"When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else." - John Henry Newman
"Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains." - Aleister Crowley / Fr. Baphomet
"To have joy, one must share it." - Lord Byron
"If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude." - Carl Jung
"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man." - Thomas Paine
"The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath." - Denis Diderot
"Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do." - Emmanuel Swedenborg
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails." Henry David Thoreau
"We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities." - Scott Cunningham
"Every man and every woman is a star." - Aleister Crowley / Fr. Baphomet
"As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Everything above and below is one unity." - the Baal Shem Tov
"To be free from bondage the wise person must practice discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become full of joy, recognizing Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss." - Adi Shankara
"Your own self is your master; who else could be? With yourself well controlled, you gain a master very hard to find." - Shakyamuni Buddha
"Contemplation for an hour is better than formal worship for sixty years." - the Prophet Muhammad PBUH
"Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness." - Emmanuel Swedenborg
"If you take the idea of God in the Bible as a metaphor for any nascent, formative just-created intelligence, is that not how we all create the universe. We divide the firmament up from the waters of the abyss, and the key to how to do this is in the first line: in the beginning, there was the word. By giving sky one word, the ground into another, we break the universe down into manageable things that we can interact with through language." - Alan Moore
"The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems." - Frithjof Schuon
"For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality." - Mircea Eliade
"The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.'" - Mircea Eliade
"You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms." - Terence McKenna
"In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of G-d." - San Juan de la Cruz
"None of you can truly be said to believe until he wants for his brother what he wants for himself." - the Prophet Muhammad PBUH
"Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal." - John Muir
"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." - John Muir
"Accept all humans as your equal and let this be your only sect." - Guru Nanak
"The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way." - Heraclitus
"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine." - Lord Byron
"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray." - Lord Byron
"If you don't stand for something you fall for everything." - Malcom X
"I want my name to mean me."- Mark Haddon
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." - Aristotle
"The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself." - Albert Camus
"There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death." - Denis Diderot
"Art is the proper task of life."- Friedrich Nietzsche
"I don’t distinguish between magic and art." - Alan Moore
"Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious." - Austin Osman Spare
"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Neitzche
"Music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds." - Sir Roger Scruton
"Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world." - Giuseppe Mazzini
"Song is the soul of the universe." - Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
"Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away." - William Blake
"Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic." - Terence McKenna
"Man is essentially a story-telling animal, but a teller of stories that aspire to truth." - Alasdair MacIntyre
"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations." - Henry David Thoreau
"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all." - Henry David Thoreau
"You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement." - John Ruskin
"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic." - Frank Herbert
"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost." - G.K. Chesterton
"A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t." - Sir Roger Scruton
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung
"The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day." - the Baal Shem Tov
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson
"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." - John Henry Newman
"The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation." - Sir Roger Scruton
"A man is what he wills himself to be." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." - Simone de Beauvoir
"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity." - Hannah Ardent
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it." - John Stuart Mill
"All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals." - Antonio Gramsci
"In a world, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry." - the Prophet Muhammad PBUH
"A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society." - Russell Kirk
"The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics." - Mircea Eliade
"Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will." - Dion Fortune
"What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn." - Ayn Rand
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change." - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents." - Mark Twain
"Live, and be happy, and make others so." - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens." - Benjamin Disraeli
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion." - Simone de Beauvoir
"What wisdom can you find greater than kindness?" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Virtue is the truest nobility." - Miguel de Cervantes
"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil." - Hannah Arendt
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." - Karl Marx
"The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and willfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices." - Aleister Crowley / Fr. Baphomet
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said." - Voltaire
"Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more." - Otto von Bismarck
"They who forgive most shall be most forgiven." - William Blake
"Two mountains can't come together, but two people can." - Yiddish proverb
"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung
"I survived because the fire inside burned brighter than the fire around me." - Joshua Graham
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato
"We are not personalists, we are partisans of principles and not of men!" - Emiliano Zapata
"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born." - Antonio Gramsci
"The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking." - Murray Bookchin
"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life." - John Stuart Mill
"The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanise them." - Hannah Arendt
"History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends." - Karl Marx
"The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself." - Lev Davidovich Trotsky
"Man is above all else mind, consciousness - that is, he is a product of history, not of nature." - Antonio Gramsci
"The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organization of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature." - Karl Marx
"History is a record of "effects" the vast majority of which nobody intended to produce." - Joseph Schumpter
"What we learn from History is that no one learns from History." - Otto von Bismarck
"The events which can not be prevented, must be directed." - Klemens von Metternich
"A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." - Edmund Burke
"No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition." - Benjamin Disraeli
"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end." - Lev Davidovich Trotsky
"If there is no justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government." - Emiliano Zapata
"They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money." - Lord Byron
“Our food is a sign of what we’ve lost in general. I think if we could start slowing down for food, and rebuilding the quality of our plates, we could start rebuilding what we’ve lost in our culture. As my boss says, culture starts in the kitchen, not in the opera house.” - Rod Dreher
"Neither of us cares a straw for popularity. A proof of this is for example, that, because of aversion to any personality cult, I have never permitted the numerous expressions of appreciation from various countries with which I was pestered during the existence of the International to reach the realm of publicity, and have never answered them, except occasionally by a rebuke. When Engels and I first joined the secret Communist Society we made it a condition that everything tending to encourage superstitious belief in authority was to be removed from the statutes." - Karl Marx
"Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party — though they are quite numerous — is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. The essence of political freedom depends not on the fanatics of 'justice', but rather on all the invigorating, beneficial, and detergent effects of dissenters. If 'freedom' becomes 'privilege', the workings of political freedom are broken." - Rosa Luxemburg
"I insist that men shall have the right to work out their lives in their own way, always allowing to others the right to work out their lives in their own way, too." - Giuseppe Garibaldi
"Land ownership is the mother of inequality and cruelty." - Jean Jaurès
"Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor." - Rosa Luxemburg
"The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained." - Russell Kirk
"Real politics are the possession and distribution of power." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason’s power." - Allan Bloom
"To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not." - Allan Bloom
"Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Revolutionary liberation must be a self-liberation that reaches social dimensions, not "mass liberation" or "class liberation" behind which lurks the rule of an elite, a hierarchy and a state." - Murray Bookchin
"In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end." - Alexis de Toqueville
"Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." - Aristotle
"...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside." - Russell Kirk
"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!" - Barry Goldwater
"The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology." - Murray Bookchin
"It is impossible to achieve a harmonization of man and nature without creating a human community that lives in a lasting balance with its natural environment." - Murray Bookchin
"A man who tries to please all men by weakening his position or compromising his beliefs, in the end has neither position nor beliefs." - Pierre Trudeau
"We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell." - Russell Kirk
"There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things" - Murray Bookchin
"Of course a bilingual state is more expensive than a unilingual one — but it is a richer state." - Pierre Trudeau
"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad." - Benjamin Disraeli
"The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence." - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"We can learn something from Marxist thinking, but we cannot follow Marxist methods." - Sun Yat-sen
"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians." - Benjamin Disraeli
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant." - Maximilien Robespierre
"The nation that has the schools has the future." - Otto von Bismarck
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln
“The real truth, that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control. Absolutely no one.” - Terence McKenna
"You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension." - Nicola Tesla
"Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility." - Russell Kirk
"All that is to last is slow to grow." - Louis Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald
"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda." - Hannah Arendt
"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election." - Otto von Bismarck
"War is what happens when language fails." - Margaret Atwood
"From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step." - Denis Diderot
"It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace." - Aristotle
"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." - Hannah Arendt
"Of all things the measure is Man." - Protagoras of Abdera