Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

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• I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
• 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 the…
• Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.
• O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?
• I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole…
• Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
• Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.
• All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid in dark coners, nooks, and…
• Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you…
• To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare Parasites, the Power…
• Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a strange doctrine and almost implies…
• What the thinker thinks, the prover proves
• My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one…
• Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only…
• Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very…
• I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody…
• Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
• The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
• Mind is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that…
• Conspiracy is just another name for coalition.

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