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The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.
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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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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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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Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.
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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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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 Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.
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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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If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.
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A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to.
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The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.
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I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.)
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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.
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Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!
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Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is obtained through Rothbard's Medieval 'investigation by a reason,' i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed.
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Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.
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The things that hinder me are opportunities to learn more and develop further.
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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.
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The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians the seducers become artists.
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Reality is what you can get away with.
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