Looks Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson

8 Looks quotes by Robert Anton Wilson

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For a mind‑bending, unconventional spin on looks, Wilson’s eight brief statements deliver his signature blend of wit and speculation.

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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…

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People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present,…

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[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote…

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Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.

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Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look…

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I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

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I've recently noticed "as if for the first time" that when people pray they always look "upward" - i.e. perpendicular to whatever…

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We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time…

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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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