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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.

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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Robert Edward Wilson
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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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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
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Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very childish forms of conceit in a world of infinitely whirling complexity. None of us can see enough from one corner of space-time to know all about the rest of space-time.
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Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).
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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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The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
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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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I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
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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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If you want to be happy, practise it every day
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The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences.
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Is, is, is — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything is I only know how it seems to me at this moment.
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There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.
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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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The things that hinder me are opportunities to learn more and develop further.
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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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Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don’t even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality.
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