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Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.
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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The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
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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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...reality is always plural and mutable.
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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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The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
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The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians the seducers become artists.
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The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
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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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Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals censorship blocks transmission.
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If you want to be happy, practise it every day
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If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.
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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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There's a great universe just next door.
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under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.
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I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.
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All that we know is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir Humphrey Davy noted when self-experimenting with nitrous oxide in 1819, and as Buddha noticed by sitting alone until all his social imprints atrophied and dropped away.
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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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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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Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
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