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We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe
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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There are gods, but there is no God and all gods become devils eventually.
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Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is obtained through Rothbard's Medieval 'investigation by a reason,' i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed.
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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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I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.
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There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
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We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.
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If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
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The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.
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Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
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Belief is the death of intelligence.
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Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there’s a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do look for the doorway and stop bumping into the wall
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Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.
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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 fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
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We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?
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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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The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.
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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.
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It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.
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