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1. "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." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
2. "No wife, no horse, no mustache" ~ Robert Anton Wilson
3. "I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
4. "All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir Humphrey Davy noted when self-experimenting with nitrous oxide in 1819, and as Buddha noticed by sitting alone until all his social imprints atrophied and dropped away." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
5. "We have never sought power. We have sought to disperse power, to set men and women free. That really means: to help them to discover that they are free. Everybody's free. The slave is free. 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. 'Fear is failure.' 'The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.' "Thou hast no right but to do thy will.' The goose can break the bottle at any second. Socrates took the hemlock to prove it. Jesus went to the cross to prove it. It's in all history, all myth, all poetry. It's right out in the open all the time." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
6. "MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?'MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering a way out for your client. Any private individual with a record of such incessant murder and robbery would be glad to cop an insanity plea. Do you insist that your client was in full possession of its reason at Wounded Knee? At Hiroshima? At Dresden?'JUSTICE IMMHOTEP: 'You become facetious, Mr. Celine.'MR. CELINE: 'I have never been more serious." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
7. "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
8. "Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
9. "Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
10. "Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there's a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do look for the doorway and stop bumping into the wall" ~ Robert Anton Wilson
11. "You know the difference between right and wrong,' he repeated finally. 'Man, why did you need Initiation—by the Golden Dawn, or by anybody else? You are a genius, a sage, a giant among men. You have solved the problem which philosophers have been debating since antiquity—the mystery about which no two nations or tribes have ever agreed, and no two men or women have ever agreed, and no intelligent person has ever agreed totally with himself from one day to the next. You know the difference between right and wrong. I am overawed. I swoon. I figuratively kiss your feet." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
12. "If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
13. "The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
14. "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." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
15. "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." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
16. "The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
17. "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
18. "Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
19. "The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
20. "But they can rule by fraud, and by fraud eventually acquire access to the tools they need to finish the job of killing off the Constitution.''What sort of tools?''More stringent security measures. Universal electronic surveillance. No-knock laws. Stop and frisk laws. Government inspection of first-class mail. Automatic fingerprinting, photographing, blood tests, and urinalysis of any person arrested before he is charged with a crime. A law making it unlawful to resist even unlawful arrest. Laws establishing detention camps for potential subversives. Gun control laws. Restrictions on travel. The assassinations, you see, establish the need for such laws in the public mind. Instead of realizing that there is a conspiracy, conducted by a handful of men, the people reason—or are manipulated into reasoning—that the entire population must have its freedom restricted in order to protect the leaders. The people agree that they themselves can't be trusted." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
21. "Wise men have regarded the earth as a tragedy, a farce, even an illusionist's trick; but all, if they are truly wise, and not merely intellectual rapists, recognize that it is certainly some kind of stage in which we all play roles, most of us being very poorly coached and totally unrehearsed before the curtain rises. Is it too much if I ask, tentatively, that we agree to look upon it as a circus, a touring carnival wandering about the sun for a record season of four billion years and producing new monsters and miracles, hoaxes and bloody mishaps, wonders and blunders, but never quite entertaining the customers well enough to prevent them from leaving, one by one, and returning to their homes for a long and bored winter's sleep under the dust?" ~ Robert Anton Wilson
22. "The fear of death is the beginning of slavery." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
23. "Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence...." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
24. "Encounters with death and danger are only adventures to the survivors." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
25. "Of course." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
26. "A chicken is the egg's way of making more eggs." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
27. "I can summarize my thoughts now by simply saying each must find his or her own Way because "the way" does not exist." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
28. "There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
29. "Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
30. "help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more" ~ Robert Anton Wilson
31. "The most thoroughly and relentlessly damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignored, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all 'Damned Things' is the individual human being. The social engineers, statisticians, psychologists, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this 'Damned Thing' into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the 'Damned Thing' will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. The psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the 'Damned Thing' will not fit into their slots." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
32. "under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
33. "Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
34. "In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
35. "Only the madman is absolutely sure." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
36. "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. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, ‘Disobedience was man's Original Virtue." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
37. "Entropy requires no maintenance." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
38. "Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
39. "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." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
40. "Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
41. "When the pope sits on the chamber pot to shit, does he believe in his own infallibility? Does not every imposter occasionally recognize his own hairy, homely humanity? Perhaps not; worn long enough, sometimes the Mask of Authority becomes the man. Even looking in a mirror, he will see the sacred Mask and not his own ordinary human face." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
42. "...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
43. "Belief is the death of intelligence." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
44. "You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
45. "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." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
46. "Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
47. "Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
48. "I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
49. "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." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
50. "It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea." ~ Robert Anton Wilson
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