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“Ipsum Nomen Res Ipsa: The Name Itself is the Thing Itself. I.N.R.I.: Isis, Apophis, Osiris: IAO.” quote by Robert Anton Wilson — Download Open image

““Ipsum Nomen Res Ipsa: The Name Itself is the Thing Itself. I.N.R.I.: Isis, Apophis, Osiris: IAO.””

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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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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 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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