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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

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Robert Anton Wilson
Age: 74 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 18
Died: 2007
Died: January 11
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Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
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The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.
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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 don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.)
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Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.
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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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Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.
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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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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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part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.
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