Beam Quote by Robert Anton Wilson

“I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.” quote by Robert Anton Wilson — Download Open image

“I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.”

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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 was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow…

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Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.

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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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“Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think. I detect the aroma of this pleasant vice in most philosophers, and a happily married logicians is almost a contradiction in terms. So many sages have regarded Woman as temptress because fornication often leads to marriage, which usually leads…

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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. It is quite profitable then to regard the gods and goddesses and demons as projections of the human mind or as unconscious aspects of ourselves. But every truth is a truth only for one place and…

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The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music everyone, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances around the sun- That so they shall not be displaced By lapses or by wars, But for the love of happy souls Outlive the newest stars.

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