"Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia."
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"There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated."
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"Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse."
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"I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread."
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"My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian."
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"Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries."
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"O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?"
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"Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies."
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"Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals."
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"I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them."
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"Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it."
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"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."
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"Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory."
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"The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born."
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"[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara."
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"Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think."
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"I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous."
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"There's a great universe just next door."
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"Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology."
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"Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!"
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