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It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.
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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I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
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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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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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Reality is what you can get away with.
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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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The things that hinder me are opportunities to learn more and develop further.
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Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.
Robert Anton Wilson
Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.
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Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.
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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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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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Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
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...reality is always plural and mutable.
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Creativity has a touch of the bizarre
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People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.
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Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.
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Only the madman is absolutely sure.
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Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there’s a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do look for the doorway and stop bumping into the wall
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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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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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