You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.
There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven’t noticed already.
Anyone in the United States today who isn’t paranoid must be crazy.
The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren’t even mammals.
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
We all see only that which we are trained to see.
We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
Only the madman is absolutely sure.
And as a matter of fact, governments don’t act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we going to adjust to this. Government can’t do anything unless the bank gives them the money to do it.
The final war will be between Pavlov’s dog and Schoedinger’s Cat.
The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can’t believe.
An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye’ve been left to fight alone.
You know what family values means, that’s hating the same people your grandfather hated.
Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.