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Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.
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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O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?
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Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.
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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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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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Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction
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My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
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Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
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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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Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
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Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.
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The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
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My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian.
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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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Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
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We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?
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There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
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He who lives happiest has forgotten most
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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.
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There is no complete theory of anything.
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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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