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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.
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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I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.
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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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part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.
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The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
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The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
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...reality is always plural and mutable.
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Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there’s a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do look for the doorway and stop bumping into the wall
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There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.
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There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
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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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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
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Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
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Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a strange doctrine and almost implies that God and the devil must have collaborated on the creation of humanity, God working above the belly button and the Devil below.
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Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.
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There is no complete theory of anything.
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We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?
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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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I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.
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...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
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