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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
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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My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian.
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Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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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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Belief is the death of intelligence.
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I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.)
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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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Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
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Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
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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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History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
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Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don’t know you're a member until it’s too late to get out.
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Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory.
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The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
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I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
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Reality is what you can get away with.
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Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons
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Only the madman is absolutely sure.
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Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.
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Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway, the priest added cynically, which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.
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