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The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
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 think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
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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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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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Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
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I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.
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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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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.
Robert Anton Wilson
The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.
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Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.
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There's a great universe just next door.
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There are gods, but there is no God and all gods become devils eventually.
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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction
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Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
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Creativity has a touch of the bizarre
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My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.
Robert Anton Wilson
The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
Robert Anton Wilson
You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.
Robert Anton Wilson
Each mans spills the drink he loves.
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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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