States Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson

8 States quotes by Robert Anton Wilson

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Wilson’s playful, reality‑bending style tackles states in eight short lines, giving a quick taste of his eccentric, thought‑provoking voice.

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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.…

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MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am…

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I have read a great deal of economic theory for over 50 years now, but have found only one economic "law" to…

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Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

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My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about…

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Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.

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I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome…

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It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of…

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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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