"The only way to stave off boredom, in……" — Robert Anton Wilson
"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 the average primate, who instead invents emotional games (soap opera and grand opera dramatics)."
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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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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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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient…
— William J. Brennan
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A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen…
— Bill Bryson
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I'll declare my own interest right here at the start and admit that, like the vast majority of people, I…
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It must be said that Brighton, unlike London, makes driving seem very appealing. Instead of glowering faces and angry horns…
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is…
— Jane Campion
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We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever…
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This…
— Camille Claudel
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I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what…
— George Clooney
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Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on…
— Maya Angelou
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