--- title: "7 Dull Quotes By Tom Robbins" description: "7 Dull quotes by Tom Robbins. Plus more from Tom Robbins and more Dull sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa1/tom-robbins-169_alone-in-love_the-world-is-a-wonderfully-weird-place-c_11546.jpg" --- > [The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/the-world-is-a-wonderfully-weird-place-consensual-reality-is/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa1/tom-robbins-169_alone-in-love_the-world-is-a-wonderfully-weird-place-c_11546.jpg) > [The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/the-enemy-is-every-expert-who-practices-technocratic-manipulation-the/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/295/tom-robbins-169_dull_the-enemy-is-every-expert-who-practices_681671.jpg) > [The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/the-enemy-is-the-tyranny-of-the-dull-mind/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c0/tom-robbins-169_dull_the-enemy-is-the-tyranny-of-the-dull-min_1165783.jpg) > [The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/the-enemy-of-the-black-is-not-the-white-the-enemy-of-capitalist-is/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c09/tom-robbins-169_black_the-enemy-of-the-black-is-not-the-white_1805694.jpg) > [Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/laws-it-is-said-are-for-the-protection-of-the-people-it-s-unfortunate/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e1/tom-robbins-169_biased_laws-it-is-said-are-for-the-protection-o_1840225.jpg) > [The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/the-divine-was-beyond-description-beyond-knowing-beyond-comprehension/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/884/tom-robbins-169_attributes_the-divine-was-beyond-description-beyond_2003448.jpg) > [The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/the-difference-between-love-and-logic-is-that-in-the-eyes-of-a-lover/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a2/tom-robbins-169_analysis_the-difference-between-love-and-logic-is_2823814.jpg) ## Other authors on Dull ## More by Tom Robbins > [There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/there-are-times-when-we-can-feel-destiny-close-around-us-like-a-fist/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) > [Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/love-is-the-ultimate-outlaw-it-just-won-t-adhere-to-any-rules-the/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) > [The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/the-party-in-alobar-s-head-which-agitation-and-anxiety-were-throwing/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) > [The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/the-world-is-a-wonderfully-weird-place-consensual-reality-is/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) > [Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/anyone-who-maintains-absolute-standards-of-good-and-evil-is-dangerous/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) > [“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/i-believe-in-everything-nothing-is-sacred-i-believe-in-nothing/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) > [A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/a-sense-of-humor-is-superior-to-any-religion-so-far-devised/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) > [“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/love-is-the-ultimate-outlaw-it-just-won-t-adhere-to-any-rules-the-2/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) > [“The glue that holds the natural world together appears to be a harmonious balance of opposites: day and night, light and dark, winter and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/the-glue-that-holds-the-natural-world-together-appears-to-be-a/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) > [Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/zippers-are-primal-and-modern-at-the-very-same-time-on-the-one-hand/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) > [“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/religion-is-a-paramount-contributor-to-human-misery-it-is-not-merely/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) > [She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/she-continued-weeping-until-the-heat-of-her-tear-water-the-sheer/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) > [The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/the-bottom-line-is-that-a-people-are-never-perfect-but-love-can-be-b/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) > [Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/virtually-every-advancement-made-by-our-species-since-civilization/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) > [When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/when-we-accept-small-wonders-we-qualify-ourselves-to-imagine-great/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dull/tom-robbins/#itemlist", "name": "7 Dull Quotes By Tom Robbins", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not 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