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"52 Robert Anton Wilson Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 18 January 1932. Died: 11 January 2007 | Author | Novelist | Essayist | Editor | Playwright | Poet |

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

Corrupt Cynics Equally Everybody
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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Become Changing Conservative Idea
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Belief is the death of intelligence.

Belief Death Intelligence
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Only the madman is absolutely sure.
Absolutely Madman Only Sure
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A true initiation never ends.

Ends Initiation Never True
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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

Become Enlightened Goal Ideal
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Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

Animals Humans Ink Outline
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Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

Becomes Beyond Certain Certain Point
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Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

Belongs Encyclopedia Only Own
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Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

Coincidences Consciousness Explains Infinite
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Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Blame Ego Fiction Gets
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Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

Crusade Every Evil God
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Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.

Around Everyone Hippies Like
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Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

Different Each Each Individual Exist
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History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

All Confirmed Economics History
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Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

History Horror Last Natural
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Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

Endure Humans Live Myths
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I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

Another Being Experienced Human
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Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

Ancestors Even Gentlemen Ladies
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Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

About Angry Anyone Dares
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Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

Church Earth Fables Miracles
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On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Break Choice Huge Increasingly
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Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Because Dull Exciting Jersey
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Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.

Create Force God Kind
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Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.
Construct Constructs Contain Mind
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The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

Abandoned Cry Fear Infant
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The average is that which no person quite ever is.

Average Ever Person Quite
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The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

Between Border Each Fixed
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The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

Function Incomprehensible Pick Pockets
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The Grail is the womb of the beloved.

Beloved Womb
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The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

Alone Earth Easier Hear
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The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

Back Down Forward Inside
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The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.

Big Big Business Both Business
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The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

Accidental Common Convinced Much
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The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.

Am Art Beautiful Dance
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There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

Become Devils Eventually God
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There is no complete theory of anything.

Anything Complete Theory
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There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.

Law Sex Shall Universal
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We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

Endure Fantasies Live Our
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When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

Cross Drama Ends Enter
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You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
Allow Annoy Big Love
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You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

End Found Get Government
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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

Course Crazy Mean Wrong
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I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

Beam Got Here I Think
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Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

Any Blood Importance Learned
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Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

Becomes Destroy Longer Need
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A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

Celebrated Communication Define Elite
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It's only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see it.

Able Only Others People
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If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

According Become Belief Blind
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I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

Anarchism Anarchist Any Because
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Robert Anton Wilson Quotes & Sayings