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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.
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 find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.
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Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
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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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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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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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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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Reality is what you can get away with.
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On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
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We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.
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You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
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The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
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If you want to be happy, practise it every day
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I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
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Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.
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Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?
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There is no complete theory of anything.
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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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There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
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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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Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
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