Believe Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson

8 Believe quotes by Robert Anton Wilson

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If you enjoy a twist of psychedelia with your confidence, Robert Anton Wilson's eight short lines blend his unconventional humor with a playful probing of what we choose to trust.

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I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but…

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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…

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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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My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or…

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I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

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Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove. And if the Thinker thinks passionately enough, the Prover will prove the thought so…

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Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see…

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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…

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Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation…

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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…

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Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.

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In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them,…

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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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I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

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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…

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“Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think. I detect the…

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I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am…

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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

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The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too,…

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“When you're dealing with these forces or powers in a philosophic and scientific way, contemplating them from an armchair, that rationalistic approach is useful.…

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“And Spaceship Earth, that glorious and bloody circus, continued its four-billion-year-long spiral orbit about the Sun; the engineering, I must admit, was so exquisite…

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