Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

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• Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.

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  Block, Reality, Tunnels

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• You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

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  Love, Inspirational, Philosophy

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• In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

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  Goes On, Conclusion

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• Governments are based pincipally on force and deception. Democratic governments are based chiefly on deception, other governments on force. And democratic governments, if you get too uppity, give up on the deception and resort to brute force, as a lot of us found out in the sixites. Those who didn't find out in the sixites will find out in the near future because we're going to have a rerun.

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  Giving Up, Government, Deception

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• The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

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  Law, Violence, Rich

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• You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.

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  Running, Thinking, Views

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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, the Welfare Parasites, the Power Elite, the female sex, the vegetarians, or the Communist Party. To the extent that you need a scapegoat, you simply have not got your brain programmed to work as an efficient problem-solving machine.

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  Sex, Party, Brain

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• ...reality is always plural and mutable.

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  Reality

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• We're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that we're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find that it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. All the ones who don't have the same reality tunnel as us do not seem ignorant, or deliberately perverse, or lying, or hypnotized by some mad ideology, they just have a different reality tunnel. And every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world, if we're willing to listen.

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  Lying, Reality, Tunnels

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

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  Truth, People, Dare

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• I read at least one periodical every month by a political group I dislike - to keep some sense of balance. The overwhelming stupidity of political movements is caused by the fact that political types never read anything but their own gang's agit-prop.

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  Political, Stupidity, Balance

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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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.

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  Intelligent, Jail, Choices

  Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “Cosmic trigger: Down to earth”, New Falcon Pubns

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• Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.

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  Real, Decision, Voting

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.

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  Men, Discovery, Innovation

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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.

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  Mean, Democracy, Three

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

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  Stupid, Resemblance Is, Too Much

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• Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don’t even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality.

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  Believe, Ignorance, Thinking

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• The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.

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  Dog, War, Cat

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• Money, after all, is an abstract artifact, like language - merely symbolized by the paper or coin or whatever. If you can fully grasp its abstractedness, especially in the computer age, it becomes quite clear that no group can monopolize this abstraction, except through a series of swindle. If the usurers had been bolder, they might have monopolized language as well as currency, and people would be saying we can't write more books because we don't have enough words, the way they now say we can't build starships, because we don't have enough money.

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  Book, Writing, People

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

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  Depression, Crazy, Mean

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• The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

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  Slavery, Fear Of Death

  Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “Coincidance: A Head Test”

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• It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.

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  Stars, Shining, Privilege

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

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  Artist, Intellectual, World

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• Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.

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  Writing, Ideas, People

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• Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

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  Crazy, United States, Today

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