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• We live in our myths, we only endure reality.

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  Reality, Endure, Myth

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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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• Reality is what you can get away with.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Get Away, Pop Art

  Robert Anton Wilson (2002). “Tsog: The Thing That Ate the Constitution”

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• My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Faith, Believe, Thinking

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

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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.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Communication, Mean, Power

  "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Shea, (p. 595), 2012.

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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.

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  Art, Judging, Theory

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

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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.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Writing, Ideas, People

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• Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show truly staggering ability to 'ignore' certain kinds of information - that which does not 'fit' their imprinted/ conditioned reality-tunnel

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Animal, Reality, Tunnels

  Robert Anton Wilson (1990). “Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World”, New Falcon Publications

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• We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

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  Ignorance, Age, Scarcity

  Robert Anton Wilson (1992). “Right where You are Sitting Now: Further Tales of the Illuminati”, Ronin Publishing

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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.

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  People, Hierarchy, Anarchy

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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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• We all see only that which we are trained to see.

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

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  Dog, War, Cat

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• "Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others."

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  Europe, Two, Patriotism

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

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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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• Communication is only possible between equals.

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  Communication

  Robert Anton Wilson (2012). “The Illuminati Papers”, p.20, Ronin Publishing

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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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• How many times... have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens inward. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice.

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  Doors, Voice, Mind

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• Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it's National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it's National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it's counter-intelligence.

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  Running, Army, People

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• I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it….

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Atheist, Cutting, Random Chance

  DragonCon, 2000.

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• 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.

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  Grief, Men, Anxiety

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• The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share the same crusading zeal and the same lack of humor, charity and common human decency. These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

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  Christian, Liars, Should Have

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• Mind is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can't see your own back (without mirrors).

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Mirrors, Mind, Tools

  "Prometheus Rising". Book by Robert Anton Wilson. Chapter 14: "The Meta Programming Circuit," p. 224, 1983.

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