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There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this 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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We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?
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People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians- meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive.
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My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
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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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He who lives happiest has forgotten most
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The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
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A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to.
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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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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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The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most scientists above the technician-troll level, computer freaks, and the righteous dope-dealers of California.
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The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
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Each mans spills the drink he loves.
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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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I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.
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...reality is always plural and mutable.
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Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
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If you want to be happy, practise it every day
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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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