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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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under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.
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Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction
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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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Only the madman is absolutely sure.
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Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.
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Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons
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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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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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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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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 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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If you want to be happy, practise it every day
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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 absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
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Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.
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