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Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
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 think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
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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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Is, is, is — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything is I only know how it seems to me at this moment.
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We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe
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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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Communication is only possible between equals.
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There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.
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Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.
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The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
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If you want to be happy, practise it every day
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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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Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.
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There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
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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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It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.
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Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
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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.
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The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
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