When you're dealing with these forces or powers in a philosophic and scientific way, contemplating them from an armchair, that rationalistic approach is useful. It is quite profitable then to regard the gods and goddesses and demons as projections of the human mind or as unconscious aspects of ourselves. But every truth is a truth only for one place and one time, and that's a truth, as I said, for the armchair. When you're actually dealing with these figures, the only safe, pragmatic and operational approach is to treat them as having a being, a will, and a purpose entirely apart from the humans who evoke them. If the Sorcerer's Apprentice had understood that, he wouldn't have gotten into so much trouble. Robert Anton Wilson
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' .. Would...
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Friedrich Nietzsche
She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me." Be careful seaweed brain." She said putting on her invisible cap and disappearing. I probably would have sat there all day,...
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Rick Riordan
Telling someone like my mother that Hell is a real, physical place, somewhere you can travel to and from, would be like spray-painting the statue of Jesus hanging over the pulpit during mass. Better off telling her the Pope is gay.
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Bill Blais
I knew I was a little different from most demons but nothing says freak of nature like a one-eyed gypsy saying I had a rainbow glow. It just didn't sound complimentary.
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Mary Abshire
If I've got a Dad, and his name is Wormwood Rot, and he's in some heavy metal rock band called Grave Dirt .. . then I'm definitely meeting him! She stares at me awkwardly, and I'm about to ask again–maybe even insist–when she says, "Honey,...
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Rusty Fischer
More Quotes By Robert Anton Wilson
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
Belief is the death of intelligence.
...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
