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"Don't get too intellectual about it - you might miss the obvious."--Mary Margaret Wildeblood, The Homing Pigeons,
in The Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy, p414,
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"History is made by men who do not think of the ultimate effects of what they are doing."--Robert Anton Wilson, The Widow's Son, p161
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"Doubt all things, especially your own moments of illumination and insight."--Sigismundo, Nature's God,
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General-purpose "Explanation" for Mysterious Phenomena:
"Fulgurous exhalation conglobed in a cloud by the circumfused humour."--Tallius, 1649
(Quoted, repeatedly, in The New Inquisition, Robert Anton Wilson)
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"It's not true unless it makes you laugh."--Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus!, Volume I, p255
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"All propositions are true in some sense,
false in some sense,
And meaningless in some sense."--Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus!, Volume 1, p262
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"Only the madman is absolutely sure."--Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus!, Volume I, p179
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"If you don't see the fnord, it can't eat you."--Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus!, Volume II, p138
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"Man is a part of nature and what he does is natural."--Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus!, Volume II, p146
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"Only Marxists still believe in an objective history."--Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus!, Volume I, p288
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"Reality is retroactive, retrospective and illusory."--Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus!, Volume I, p288
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"In the beginning was the Word, and it was written by a baboon."--Joe Malik,
Illuminatus!,
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Volume I, p105
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"Everything in life is a hallucination - Everything in death too."--Simon Moon, Illuminatus!,
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Volume I, p91
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"Students are not (at university) to learn - they are here to acquire a piece of paper that would make them eligible for certain jobs."--Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus!, Volume I, p146)
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"The belief in coincidence is the prevalent superstition of the Age of Science."--Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus!, Volume I, p303
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"The pyramid is the two (nervous systems) coming together and joining, the magical-telepathic orgasm...The eye on the pyramid is the two minds meeting."--Simon Moon, Illuminatus!,
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Volume I, p230
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"If the real is so often bizarre, then the bizarre may often be real...but you've got to draw the line somewhere."--Joe Malik, Illuminatus!,
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Volume II, pp7-8
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"Truth is a tiger.
Walk cautiously."--Hagbard Celine, Illuminatus!,
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Volume II, p103
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"Communication is possible only between equals."--Hagbard Celine, Illuminatus!,
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Volume II, p9
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"I have lived so outrageously long because...
I don't give a fuck for good and evil."--Dealy Lama, Illuminatus!,
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Volume II, p179
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"No governing body can ever obtain an accurate account of reality from those over whom it holds power."--Fred Filiarisus, Illuminatus!,
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Volume II, p124
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"All humans are irrational, but there are two different kinds of irrationality - those who love old ideas and hate and fear new ones, and those who despise old ideas and joyfully embrace new ones. Homo neophobus and Homo neophilus."--Hagbard Celine, Illuminatus!,
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Volume I, pp206-7
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"You cannot understand a man's actions until you understand his beliefs."--Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus!, Volume II, p36
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"You can't understand a man's motives until you understand his beliefs."--Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus!, Volume II
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"Everybody is crazy if you don't understand his motives."--Saul Goodman, Illuminatus!,
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Volume I, p169
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"The Ultimate Weapon is...the ability to say 'No' and take the consequences."--Hagbard Celine, Illuminatus!,
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Volume III, p143
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"Fear is failure."--Hagbard Celine, Illuminatus!,
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Volume III, p143
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"The fear of death is the beginning of slavery."--Hagbard Celine, Illuminatus!,
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Volume II, p69
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"Are unicorns real?...Is a thought about unicorns a real thought?"--Mavis, Illuminatus!,
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Volume I, p80
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"Everybody is a nice guy underneath it all...what we become after the world is through messing us over is something else."--Hagbard Celine, Illuminatus!,
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Volume I, p91
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"Never underestimate absurdity.
It is one door to the imagination."--Padre Pederastia, Illuminatus!,
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Volume I, p101
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"What the world calls sanity has led to the present planetary crisis - and insanity is the only viable alternative."--Simon Moon, Illuminatus!,
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Volume I, p113
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"The limits are nowhere near as rigid as we've been taught to believe...there are no practical limits at all, and Reality is whatever people decide to make it."--Simon Moon, Illuminatus!,
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Volume I, p114
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"There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind."--Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus!, Volume I, p32
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"They can always say your papers are not in order."--Mary Lou Servix, Illuminatus!,
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Volume III, p141
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