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Masks of the Illuminati

Robert Anton Wilson

Top 10 Best Quotes

“We all see only that which we are trained to see.”

“The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.”

“Only the madman is absolutely sure.”

“How many times... have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens inward. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice.”

“Encounters with death and danger are only adventures to the survivors.”

“No wife, no horse, no mustache”

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

“Ipsum Nomen Res Ipsa: The Name Itself is the Thing Itself. I.N.R.I.: Isis, Apophis, Osiris: IAO.”

“You know the difference between right and wrong,' he repeated finally. 'Man, why did you need Initiation—by the Golden Dawn, or by anybody else? You are a genius, a sage, a giant among men. You have solved the problem which philosophers have been debating since antiquity—the mystery about which no two nations or tribes have ever agreed, and no two men or women have ever agreed, and no intelligent person has ever agreed totally with himself from one day to the next. You know the difference between right and wrong. I am overawed. I swoon. I figuratively kiss your feet.”

“See you when tea is hot.”

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perception, bias, george-cecil-jones, pun, magick, john-babcock, madness, normalcy, morality, relativism, james-joyce, sarcasm

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