Top 100 Robert Anton Wilson Quotes
#2. Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
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#3. It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.
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#4. 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.
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#6. You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me ... It's called senility.
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#7. Part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.
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#8. On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
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#9. The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.
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#10. 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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#11. I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject.
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#12. It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.
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#13. How do you get free of the damnable books of Romance when everybody else is still living in them?
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#14. 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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#15. Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
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#18. Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.
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#20. We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something.
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#21. "Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others."
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#22. Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it.
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#23. I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.
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#24. 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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#25. Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
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#27. Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
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#28. Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
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#29. If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
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#30. Magick has many aspects, but primarily it acts as a dramatized system of psychology
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#31. The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.
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#32. 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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#33. I read at least one periodical every month by a political group I dislike - to keep some sense of balance. The overwhelming stupidity of political movements is caused by the fact that political types never read anything but their own gang's agit-prop.
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#34. 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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#35. 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.
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#36. My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
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#37. 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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#38. He had decided that what was going on was that everybody was very carefully avoiding paying attention to what was going on.
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#39. What the world calls sanity has led us to the present planetary crisis ... and insanity is the only viable alternative.
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#40. 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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#41. Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don't know you're a member until it's too late to get out.
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#42. O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?
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#43. I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it ... .
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#46. Now you know how I fooled you," he would say. "Try to figure out on your own how your congressmen and clergymen fool you. There is no restraint that isn't self-imposed: you are all absolutely free.
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#47. The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
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#50. What a fantastic piece of hot lustful woman she was, Roger thought irrelevantly.
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#51. Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
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#53. Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.
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#56. Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.
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#57. We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.
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#59. A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants
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#60. All of us should treasure his (John Dillinger) Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks: 'Just lie down on the floor and keep calm.
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#61. We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.
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#62. 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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#63. I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.
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#64. Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.
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#67. Drest had made a careful study of the Discordian philosophy and realized it was the kind of outlandish nonsense that would appeal to the kind of people who made all the trouble in history-brilliant, intellectual, slightly deranged dope fiends and oddball math-and-technology buffs.
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#68. Gentlemen, all the so-called recreational drugs that have come into wide use in the last few decades may be chemical shock devices. I think people are bleaching out their old imprints, and accidentally making new ones, when they think they're just getting high and having fun.
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#69. You can "prove" anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning.
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#70. 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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#73. All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid in dark coners, nooks, and sink holes.
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#76. If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.
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#77. Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.
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#78. Men (and women) indeed become strange when seeking gods. As the present work will show, however, they become even stranger when seeking devils.
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#79. You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.
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#80. Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.
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#81. The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.
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#82. Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
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#83. The things that hinder me are opportunities to learn more and develop further.
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#84. The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force of arms, nobody "owns" the earth, anymore than the moon, the planets, the stars themselves.
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#85. But once you have a belief system everything that comes in either gets ignored if it doesn't fit the belief system or get distorted enough so that it can fit into the belief system. You gotta be continually revising your map of the world.
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#86. Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
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#87. Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.
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#88. 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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#89. You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.
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#90. Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.
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#91. Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
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#93. I'd support life extension by whatever means, from cryonic suspension to cyborgism to coding ourselves into our computers or whatever. There is nothing noble or beautiful or dignified about dying. Like poverty, it is ugly, nasty, brutal and primitive.
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#94. An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
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#95. I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.
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#96. 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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#97. Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.
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#98. Encounters with death and danger are only adventures to the survivors.
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#99. Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
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