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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.
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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The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
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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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Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.
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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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Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
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Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.
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...reality is always plural and mutable.
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There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
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The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
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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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Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.
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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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There is no complete theory of anything.
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...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
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I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
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I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.
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Belief is the death of intelligence.
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The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
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In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them, 'traditional family values' denotes their right to keep their children as ignorant as their grandparents (and to hate the same folks grand-dad hated.)
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