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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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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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All that we know is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir Humphrey Davy noted when self-experimenting with nitrous oxide in 1819, and as Buddha noticed by sitting alone until all his social imprints atrophied and dropped away.
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What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.
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Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction
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We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?
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The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
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Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.
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The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
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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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A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
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Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.
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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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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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I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
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Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
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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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Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.
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Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
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Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway, the priest added cynically, which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.
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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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