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Robert Anton Wilson [1932-0] American

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Robert Anton Wilson was an American author, novelist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, and self-described agnostic mystic.

God, Alone, Communication, Death, Intelligence, Science, Space, War

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Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.		101
We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.		102
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.	God, War	103
Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.		104
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.	God	105
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.		106
I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.		107
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.	Communication	108
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.		109
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.		110
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.		111
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.		112
The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.		113
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.		114
Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.		115
If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.		116
Belief is the death of intelligence.	Death, Intelligence	117
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.		118
Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.		119
There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.		120
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.		121
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.		122
History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.		123
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.		124
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.		125
Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.		126
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.		201
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.		202
A true initiation never ends.		203
Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.	Space	204
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.		205
I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.		206
I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.		207
My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.		208
Only the madman is absolutely sure.		209
An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.		210
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.		211
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.		212
The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.		213
The average is that which no person quite ever is.		214
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.		215
The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.		216
There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.		217
There is no complete theory of anything.	Science	218
Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.		219
Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.		220
Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.		221
Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.		222
The Grail is the womb of the beloved.		223
It's only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see it.		224
I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.		225
The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.	Alone	226
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.		301

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