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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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...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
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Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.
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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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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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Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!
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Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
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If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.
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...reality is always plural and mutable.
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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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The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.
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The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.
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There's a great universe just next door.
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