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Only the madman is absolutely sure.
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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Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers.
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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
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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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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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Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
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Belief is the death of intelligence.
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We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.
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The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most scientists above the technician-troll level, computer freaks, and the righteous dope-dealers of California.
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It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.
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Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
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Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don’t even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality.
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If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
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You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.
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Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.
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Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
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There is no complete theory of anything.
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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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