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... I have developed, over th...

... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal Platonic Horseshit that exists, evidently, only in the contemplation of those who worship such abstractions; and I continue to notice that Natural Law bears an uncanny resemblance to ideal Platonic Horseshit.

Robert Anton Wilson 234 quotes

It became quite clear to me t...

It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.

Robert Anton Wilson 234 quotes

Ye have locked yerselves up i...

Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

Robert Anton Wilson 234 quotes

You're only infallible about ...

You're only infallible about your own nervous system. You know what's going on in your own nervous system, whatever realities you're creating out of the infinite flux of being. You don't know anything about anybody else's reality unless they tell you about it. You gotta listen very sympathetically in order to understand them. So it's a limited infallibility.

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MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine ...

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 234 quotes

I'm the kind of anarchist who...

I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject.

Robert Anton Wilson 234 quotes

I will do anything, including...

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

Robert Anton Wilson 234 quotes

Mystics are all a bit funny i...

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

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The Western World has been br...

The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is that there is one map which adequately represents reality. By sheer good luck, every Occidental thinks he or she has the map that fits. Guerrilla ontology, to me, involves shaking up that certainty.

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Existence is larger than any ...

Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).

Robert Anton Wilson 234 quotes

People's belief in their own ...

People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.

Robert Anton Wilson 234 quotes

Since things are moving faste...

Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.

Robert Anton Wilson 234 quotes

...an optimistic mind-set fin...

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

Robert Anton Wilson 234 quotes

We can't run out of resources...

We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something.

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I'm using myself as a typical...

I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.

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Ye have cast out yer brothers...

Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.

Robert Anton Wilson 234 quotes

I read everything, including ...

I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively.

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[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains...

[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara.

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O how the darkness do crowd u...

O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?

Robert Anton Wilson 234 quotes

Artistic judgments are silly ...

Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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