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Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
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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If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.
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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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My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.
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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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The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
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The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
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There are gods, but there is no God and all gods become devils eventually.
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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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A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to.
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My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
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Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.
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There is no complete theory of anything.
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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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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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Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
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You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
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There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
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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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I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
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part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.
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