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The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
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.
Conspiracy is just another name for coalition.
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.
Everyone has a belief system, B.S., the trick is to learn not to take anyone's B.S. too seriously, especially your own.
Reality Is What You Can Get Away With (1993)
I regard the two major male archetypes in 20th Century literature as Leopold Bloom and Hannibal Lecter.
Occult historians generally agree that V.V.V.V.V. signified Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici ("By the force of truth I have conquered the universe"), one of the eleven magic mottoes of Aleister Crowley.
The Discordian Society, we repeat again, is not a complicated joke disguised as a new religion but really a new religion disguised as a complicated joke.
Cosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977)
A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
The illusion of Sin and Guilt, the madness of our species, is the act of cursing the world under the misapprehension that one is cursing only one part of it.
Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size...)
The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975)
No wife, no horse, no mustache.
Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy : The Trick Top Hat (1979)
Whatever his link with occult secret societies, he influenced Hegel, Marx, theosophy, James Joyce, Timothy Leary, Discordianism, and Dr. Wilhelm Reich.
Everything Is Under Control (1998)
"Is," "is." "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.
Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
Each mans spills the drink he loves.
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.
Guerrilla ontology
The basic technique of all my books. Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?'"
The Illuminati Papers (1980)