"Like what you like, enjoy what you enjoy, and don't take crap from anybody."

"I happen to be the CEO of the Committee for Surrealist Investigation of Claims of the Normal, and we are actually offering $10,000 to anyone who can produce something that is totally normal in all respects, or even average."

I had to think about this for a day, picking just one quote, so here it goes:

There are a series of exercises on page 29 of P.R., here are exercises #10 and #11:

10. Believe it is possible that you can float off the ground and
fly by merely willing it. See what happens.
If this exercise proves as dissapointing to you as it has to me,
try number 11 below, which is never dissapointing.
11. Believe that you can exceed all your previous ambitions
and hopes in all areas of your life.

here are three of my favorites, in no particular order.


Wilson's 22nd Law: "Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia."

Pessimism is a luxury that only the comfortable can afford.

Wilson's Fourth Law sez, "With sufficient research you will find evidence to support your theory."

I think we can engineer immotal superhuman beings in many dimensions
of superiority to us. I hope we can learn to re-engineer ourselves neurologically
to become more superhuman than our creations by learning from them.
* * *
God is a ridiculously small human concept
compared to the coherent intelligence
of universe. Everything doesn't need to have
a primate Alpha male in charge
to be an intelligent system.
* * *
We are made out of the debris of exploding stars
the not-tuned-in is not non-existent since non-existence
is a metaphysical concept operationally stars , people, quarks
Tune in, or tune out
the dance is eternal


Online conference with Dr. Robert Anton Wilson, leading occultist and
former movie critic for Playboy magazine

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Subject: Wilson on CI$

"we live in our fantasies and put up with our realities"

"A lamentable oversight," Crowley said unctuously. "What about Christ, indeed? Personally, I hold the man blameless for the religion that has been foisted upon him posthumously."

"Don't believe everything you think."

www.youtube.com/watch

recently bumped into this, which has now been put to the top of my favourite raw quotes.

“Only the madman is absolutely sure”

and a few others.... on a similar note:

“If you think you know what the hell is going on, you're probably full of shit.”

“I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.)”

“Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.”

“The shock of discovering that most of the power in the world is held by ignorant and greedy people can really bum you out at first; but after you've lived with it a few decades, it becomes, like cancer and other plagues, just another problem that we will solve eventually if we keep working at it.”