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I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

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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Robert Edward Wilson
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It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called barbarism and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.
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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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Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
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Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.
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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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Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
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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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There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
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The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most scientists above the technician-troll level, computer freaks, and the righteous dope-dealers of California.
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The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.
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Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
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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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Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).
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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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Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.
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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 are gods, but there is no God and all gods become devils eventually.
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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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Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.
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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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