Knows Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson

8 Knows quotes by Robert Anton Wilson

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Wilson’s eight terse lines on knowing capture his playful, speculative take on perception, offering a quick glimpse into his eclectic, reality‑questioning style.

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You're only infallible about your own nervous system. You know what's going on in your own nervous system, whatever realities you're creating…

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Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude:…

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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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You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.

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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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There is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go…

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Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and…

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Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire…

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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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