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• Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don’t know you're a member until it’s too late to get out.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Secret, Finals, Too Late

  Robert Anton Wilson (1977). “Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati”, New Falcon Pubns

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• Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Attitude, Reality, Tunnels

  Robert Anton Wilson (1977). “Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati”, New Falcon Pubns

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• I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  People, Hierarchy, Anarchy

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• Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Men, Virtue, Recalcitrant

  Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson (2012). “The Illuminatus! Trilogy”, p.597, Hachette UK

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• The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force of arms, nobody "owns" the earth, anymore than the moon, the planets, the stars themselves.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Stars, Moon, Land

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Real, Blue, Fiction

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• If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?

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  Funny, Humor, Helping Others

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• part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.

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  Listening, Hominids, Planets

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• Only the madman is absolutely sure.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Inspirational, Skepticism, Madmen

  "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Anton Wilson, Part I : The Eye in the Pyramid, (p. 176), 1988.

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• Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Sex, Robots, Roles

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• Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  World, Corporations, Politician

  "The I in the Triangle". Speech held at a bookstore in Santa Cruz, California, 1990.

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• Belief is the death of intelligence.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Faith, Atheist, Believe

  Robert Anton Wilson (1977). “Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati”, New Falcon Pubns

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• Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Running, Children, School

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• Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Art, Judging, Theory

  Robert Anton Wilson (2012). “The Illuminati Papers”, p.12, Ronin Publishing

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• And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we going to adjust to this. Government can't do anything unless the bank gives them the money to do it.

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  Government, Giving, Decision

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• We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Metaphor, Constructs, Trapped

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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.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Squares, Miracle, Church

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• An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Goal, Slave, Enlightened

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• The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Atheist, Keys, Civilization

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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.

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  Children, Men, Vegas

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• Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Brain, Doe, Models

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• Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.

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  Emotional, Hysteria, World

  Robert Anton Wilson (1982). “The Earth Will Shake: A Novel”, J P Tarcher

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• Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

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  Money, Taxation, Weapons

  Robert Anton Wilson (2012). “The Illuminati Papers”, p.21, Ronin Publishing

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• All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.

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  Real, Unreal, Meaningless

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

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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.

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  Weakness, Individual, Obedience

  Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson (2012). “The Illuminatus! Trilogy”, p.185, Hachette UK

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