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.
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Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson
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On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.
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.
We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.
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.
There is no complete theory of anything.
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
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.
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
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.
The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
A true initiation never ends.
Belief is the death of intelligence.
I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.
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.
Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
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.
The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
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