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We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.
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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Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.
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Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
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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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I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
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Belief is the death of intelligence.
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Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
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If you want to be happy, practise it every day
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Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.
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There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
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Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a strange doctrine and almost implies that God and the devil must have collaborated on the creation of humanity, God working above the belly button and the Devil below.
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The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.
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I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.
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There are gods, but there is no God and all gods become devils eventually.
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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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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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The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.
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