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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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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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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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The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
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The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians the seducers become artists.
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Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory.
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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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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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We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe
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What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.
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I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
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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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Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
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Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers.
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The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.
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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the average primate, who instead invents emotional games (soap opera and grand opera dramatics).
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There's a great universe just next door.
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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
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There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
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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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