"In order to eat, you have to be……" — Robert Anton Wilson
"In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life."
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Robert Anton Wilson
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158 Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson has 158 quotes on this site.
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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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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I…
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
— Roland Barthes
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.…
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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most…
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