Pax Hominibus Bonae Voluntatis by Aleister Crowley in International, Dec 1917.

“So long, then, as we are true to ourselves, it is as with William Schwenck Gilbert, ‘You are right and I am right and everyone of us is right.'” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “If we conceive of each individual (with his heredity and environment complete) as a machine constructed to serve one definite purpose and one only, we relieve ourselves at once from all difficulty about moral judgment.”
  2. “The Australians have a better way of explaining these things. They say truthfully, ‘Oh, you are all right,’ and then as a sort of after thought, sadly, ‘It is a pity the tree fell on you.'”
  3. “Religion is in some respects a difficult if not a fallacious guide. Quot homines tot sentential; or, as the Indians say, ‘A new language every eight miles.’ Our true guide is certainly the biological indication.”
  4. “I do not quarrel with any one for being insane. I think he is perfectly right to maintain that he is a poached egg; but I also think that it would be more generally convenient if he airs that belief in seclusion.”
  5. "Where such ideas are pushed to the limit the results are utterly abominable. We need only refer to the destruction of one of the finest races of the world, the American Indian, which was due to nothing but the conviction that he was a remorseless and treacherous savage."