Robert Anton Wilson quotes - page 2

Conspiracy is just another name for coalition. (Robert Anton Wilson)
Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others. View quote
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The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness. View quote
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The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles. View quote
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I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. "Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance!" View quote
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"Is," "is." "is" - the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment. View quote
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There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already. View quote
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You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it. View quote
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"Mind" is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can't see your own back (without mirrors). View quote
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Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove. View quote
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My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian. (Robert Anton Wilson)
The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it. View quote
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We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor. View quote
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We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such. View quote
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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence. View quote
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Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars. View quote
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The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences. View quote
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I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me. View quote
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Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become. View quote
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The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is that there is one map which adequately represents reality. By sheer good luck, every Occidental thinks he or she has the map that fits. Guerrilla ontology, to me, involves shaking up that certainty. View quote
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Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons. (Robert Anton Wilson)
I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous. View quote
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We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear. View quote
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... an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable. View quote
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We all see only that which we are trained to see. View quote
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