Nothing in this book is an attempt to prevent the really resolute misery addicts from continuing their pursuit of frustration and failure.
Robert Anton WilsonIn summary, Intelligence Intensification is desirable, because there is not a single problem confronting humanity that is not either caused or considerably worsened by the prevailing stupidity (insensitivity) of the species: badly wired robots bumping into and maiming and killing each other.
Robert Anton WilsonWe have never sought power. We have sought to disperse power, to set men and women free. That really means: to help them to discover that they are free. Everybody's free. The slave is free. 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. 'Fear is failure.' 'The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.' "Thou hast no right but to do thy will.' The goose can break the bottle at any second. Socrates took the hemlock to prove it. Jesus went to the cross to prove it. It's in all history, all myth, all poetry. It's right out in the open all the time.
Robert Anton WilsonTags: hagbard-celine
Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
Robert Anton Wilsonpart of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.
Robert Anton WilsonEvery 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. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, ‘Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue.
Robert Anton WilsonWishing to prove oneself right is the usual motive for scholarship.
Robert Anton WilsonTags: george-cecil-jones
If it were Hegel, I might suspect it means nothing. But Goethe means something, always.
Robert Anton WilsonTags: albert-einstein goethe hegel
Encounters with death and danger are only adventures to the survivors.
Robert Anton WilsonTags: john-babcock
See you when tea is hot.
Robert Anton WilsonTags: pun
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