"I regard belief as a form of brain…" — Robert Anton Wilson
"I regard belief as a form of brain damage."
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158 Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson has 158 quotes on this site.
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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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My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any…
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More Belief Quotes
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
— Richard Bach
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
— Isaac Asimov
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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