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Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway, the priest added cynically, which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.
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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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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Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very childish forms of conceit in a world of infinitely whirling complexity. None of us can see enough from one corner of space-time to know all about the rest of space-time.
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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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I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.
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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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A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants
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The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
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Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.
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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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Creativity has a touch of the bizarre
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There is no complete theory of anything.
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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
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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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The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.
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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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I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.
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Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.
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