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Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson
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Robert Anton Wilson
Age: 74 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 18
Died: 2007
Died: January 11
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Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.
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Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.
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Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
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...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
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Is, is, is — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything is I only know how it seems to me at this moment.
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There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
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Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.
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...reality is always plural and mutable.
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I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
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Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
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Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.
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People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians- meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive.
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Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!
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Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.
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Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.
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O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?
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Reality is what you can get away with.
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The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the average primate, who instead invents emotional games (soap opera and grand opera dramatics).
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The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.
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Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very childish forms of conceit in a world of infinitely whirling complexity. None of us can see enough from one corner of space-time to know all about the rest of space-time.
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