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Nature's God (Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, #3) QUOTES

Nature's God (Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, #3) QUOTES

1 " 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. "

― Robert Anton Wilson , Nature's God (Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, #3)

2 " Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think. I detect the aroma of this pleasant vice in most philosophers, and a happily married logicians is almost a contradiction in terms. So many sages have regarded Woman as temptress because fornication often leads to marriage, which usually leads to children, which always leads to a respectable job and pretending to believe the idiocies your neighbors believe. The hypocrisy of the sages has been to conceal their timid onanism and call it celibacy. "

― Robert Anton Wilson , Nature's God (Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, #3)

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

― Robert Anton Wilson , Nature's God (Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, #3)

4 " When the pope sits on the chamber pot to shit, does he believe in his own infallibility? Does not every imposter occasionally recognize his own hairy, homely humanity? Perhaps not; worn long enough, sometimes the Mask of Authority becomes the man. Even looking in a mirror, he will see the sacred Mask and not his own ordinary human face. "

― Robert Anton Wilson , Nature's God (Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, #3)

5 " The Greatest thing about masturbation is that it is always available. I wager that many a condemn man has consoled himself this way during the night before his execution. "

― Robert Anton Wilson , Nature's God (Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, #3)