Albert Pike

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all is Fraternity.

The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy of fixedness and movement which is the principle of Creation and the perpetual cause of life.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Will is the dynamic soul-force.

The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God.

What we have done for ourselves alone, dies with us. What we have done for others and the world, remains and is immortal.

There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Be he never so benighted and forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual Despair.

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

Will is the dynamic soul force.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent reason sometimes speaks.

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.