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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.
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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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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Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.
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The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.
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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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There are gods, but there is no God and all gods become devils eventually.
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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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A true initiation never ends.
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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).
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I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
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If you want to be happy, practise it every day
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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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People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians- meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive.
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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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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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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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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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Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
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Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is obtained through Rothbard's Medieval 'investigation by a reason,' i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed.
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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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Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
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