Albert Pike quotes

" What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. " # Service # Immortality # Life and Living

" 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. " # Doubt # Love # Change

" Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence. " # Life and Living

" A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind. " # Power

" 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. " # Law and Lawyers

" That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light. " # Adversity # Happiness # Friends and Friendship

" The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty. " # Freedom # Power # Hope

" He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the wind. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current. Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on towards ultimate success. " # Service # Anger # Success

" Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the " # Action # Books - Reading # Writers and Writing

" He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success. " # Service