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One Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.
- There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
- On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
- Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
- The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
- If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.
- under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have…
- There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data…
- I have read a great deal of economic theory for over 50 years now, but have found only one economic "law" to which I can…
- "Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore…
- Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.
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