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Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons
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 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).
Robert Anton Wilson
The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.
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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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There's a great universe just next door.
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Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.
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You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
Robert Anton Wilson
It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.
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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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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 one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
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The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is that there is one map which adequately represents reality. By sheer good luck, every Occidental thinks he or she has the map that fits. Guerrilla ontology, to me, involves shaking up that certainty.
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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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Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).
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Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.
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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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I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
Robert Anton Wilson
Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
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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.
Robert Anton Wilson
Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.
Robert Anton Wilson
Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
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