Robert Anton Wilson Quotes
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals. Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves. 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. Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat. Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it. Only the madman is absolutely sure. Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey. 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. Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs. The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear. The average is that which no person quite ever is. The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization. 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. The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. The Grail is the womb of the beloved. The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth. 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 Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
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