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We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?
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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I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.
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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
Robert Anton Wilson
A true initiation never ends.
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Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.
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The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
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...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
Robert Anton Wilson
The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.
Robert Anton Wilson
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.
Robert Anton Wilson
The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.
Robert Anton Wilson
I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.
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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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Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!
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You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.
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The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
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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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Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
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Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.
Robert Anton Wilson
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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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.
Robert Anton Wilson
Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.
Robert Anton Wilson
