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There are gods, but there is no God and all gods become devils eventually.
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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It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.
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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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There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
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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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I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
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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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I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
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Belief is the death of intelligence.
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The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
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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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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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Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals censorship blocks transmission.
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I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.
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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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I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.
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