Top 70 Albert Pike Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Albert Pike

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2. “We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.”

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3. “The sovereignty of one’s self over one’s self is called Liberty.”

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4. “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.”

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5. “Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.”

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6. “Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.”

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7. “It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.”

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

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9. “All religious expression is symbolism.”

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10. “Strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls? Doubt it not!”

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

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12. “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.”

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13. “Man’s real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books.”

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14. “It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason.”

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15. “We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet respect each other as Brothers.”

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16. “Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves.”

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17. “Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.”

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18. “Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah.”

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19. “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.”

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20. “The true philosophy, known and practiced by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.”

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21. “The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.”

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22. “Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries.”

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23. “For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as to be pious, to be wise, to be temperate and just, to be frugal and abstinent, and to be magnanimous and brave; and to be the opposite of all these is the same as to be a slave.”

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24. “Work only can keep even kings respectable.”

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25. “Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil, and bruise itself.”

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26. “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.”

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27. “We live our little life; but Heaven is above us and all around and close to us; and Eternity is before us and behind us; and suns and stars are silent witnesses and watchers over us. We are enfolded by Infinity.”

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28. “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 .”

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29. “Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.”

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30. “The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars.”

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31. “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.”

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32. “True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure. The spirit is thought; thought is the heart; the heart is the fire; the fire is the Elixir.”

— Albert Pike

33. “Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.”

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34. “Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.”

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35. “There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.”

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36. “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.”

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37. “Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.”

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38. “Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses.”

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39. “The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.”

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40. “The Universe should be deemed an immense Being, always living, always moved and always moving in an eternal activity inherent in itself, and which, subordinate to no foreign cause, is communicated to all its parts, connects them together, and makes the world of things a complete and perfect whole.”

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41. “We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.”

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42. “A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.”

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43. “War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.”

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44. “We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain; for each looks through his own mist.”

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45. “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.”

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46. “Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces, Faith and Love. Prayer is sublime.”

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47. “A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life. There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness .”

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48. “All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.”

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49. “Man is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with majesty and sacredness. Something of sublimity and sanctity has thus flashed down from heaven into the heart of every one that lives.”

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50. “Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .”

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