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The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.

I would hate to be taken seriously. Serious people are always so grim and uptight that they make me want to dance naked on the lawn playing a flute.

Wishing to prove oneself right is the usual motive for scholarship.

See you when tea is hot.

Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.

Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara.

We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something.

What a fantastic piece of hot lustful woman she was, Roger thought irrelevantly.

I can summarize my thoughts now by simply saying each must find his or her own Way because "the way" does not exist.

Creativity has a touch of the bizarre

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.

I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

A chicken is the egg's way of making more eggs.

You can "prove" anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning.

What the world calls sanity has led us to the present planetary crisis ... and insanity is the only viable alternative.

Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.

He who lives happiest has forgotten most

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.

belief is the death of intelligence.

If you want to be happy, practise it every day

Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don't know you're a member until it's too late to get out.

Here's what it is, here's what it isn't, now here's why you need to go tell everyone how smart I am.

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me ... It's called senility.

Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.

A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants

We're trapped in linguistic constructs ... all that is is metaphor.

Men (and women) indeed become strange when seeking gods. As the present work will show, however, they become even stranger when seeking devils.

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

It's only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see it.

People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots.

Nothing is too heavy to be knocked on its ass, and everything is cool, baby.
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On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence ...

The Grail is the womb of the beloved.

You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.

Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.

If it were Hegel, I might suspect it means nothing. But Goethe means something, always.

...reality is always plural and mutable.

What the thinker thinks, the prover proves

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.

When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody, and I will join it at once.

People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be ...

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.

We live in our myths, we only endure reality.

Nothing in this book is an attempt to prevent the really resolute misery addicts from continuing their pursuit of frustration and failure.

Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it.

Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.

The things that hinder me are opportunities to learn more and develop further.

I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.

Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.

Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.

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

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.

Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

G.W.F. Hegel. "He's perfect," Weishaupt wrote ... "Unlike Kant, who makes sense only in German, this man doesn't make sense in any language.

No wife, no horse, no mustache

There is no complete theory of anything.

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.

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

Conspiracy is just another name for coalition.

Part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.

Each mans spills the drink he loves.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.