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It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.
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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The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is that there is one map which adequately represents reality. By sheer good luck, every Occidental thinks he or she has the map that fits. Guerrilla ontology, to me, involves shaking up that certainty.
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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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Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.
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Creativity has a touch of the bizarre
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Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!
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Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
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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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part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.
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The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
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Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.
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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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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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Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction
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There's a great universe just next door.
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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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I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
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Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals censorship blocks transmission.
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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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...reality is always plural and mutable.
Robert Anton Wilson
Communication is only possible between equals.
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