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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?'"

— Robert Anton Wilson The Illuminati Papers (1980)

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Yates thinks Bruno may have had a role in the invention of either Rosicrucianism or Freemasonry or both.

Everything Is Under Control (1998)

The fallacy is that one can judge the part in isolation from the whole is "the Lie that all men believe."

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

The A∴A∴ must rank as the most secretive secret society in the world.

Everything Is Under Control (1998)

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

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Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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