"... I have developed, over the years, some……" — Robert Anton Wilson
"... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal Platonic Horseshit that exists, evidently, only in the contemplation of those who worship such abstractions; and I continue to notice that Natural Law bears an uncanny resemblance to ideal Platonic Horseshit."
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Robert Anton Wilson
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158 Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson
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I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
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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…
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Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.
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O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what…
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I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet…
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Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
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Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.
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All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid…
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Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse…
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To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits,…
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Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a…
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What the thinker thinks, the prover proves
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker…
— John Stuart Mill
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If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described…
— Carl Sagan
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He…
— Flannery O'Connor
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To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be…
— Wendell Berry
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There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
— Edmund Burke
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Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time…
— Walt Whitman
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We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.
— Marianne Williamson
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For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or…
— Virginia Woolf
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For the Warrior of the Light, there are no abstractions.
— Paulo Coelho
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