"Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently.
Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability
to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals;
censorship blocks transmission."
Robert Anton Wilson

"Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet,
it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology
(Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking."
Robert Anton Wilson

"The map is not the territory."
Alford Korzybski

"All models are wrong but some are useful."
George Box

"We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are."
The Talmud

"We have always sought explanations when it was only representations that we could seek to invent."
Paul Valéry

"The universe is change, life is opinion."
Marcus Aurelius

"I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence,
the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.)."
Robert Anton Wilson

"People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present,
over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians - meaningless propositions
that look meaningful to the linguistically naive."
Robert Anton Wilson

"Only the madman is absolutely sure."
Robert Anton Wilson

"Any reality... is an opinion. You create your own reality... WOW!"
Timothy Leary

"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."
Sigmund Freud

"(!Achtung!!! - Is Reality Distorting Your Ideals?)"
Antero Alli

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
William James

symbols get mistaken for reality - symbols can be manipulated
hence 'reality' can be manipulated - messy situation develops

Reality is the new fiction they say, true is truer these days, truth is man-made.

"There are no facts, only interpretations."
Friedrich Nietzsche

We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented, it's as simple as that.
The Truman Show

"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."
Robert Anton Wilson

"'Seeing' is not a function of the eyes alone, but of the eyes-and-brain working together. A popular proverb says, 'Seeing is believing,' but as the philosopher Santayana once pointed out, humans are much better at believing than at seeing."
Robert Anton Wilson

"Perception is real even when it is not reality."
Edward deBono

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
John Lennon"

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
Albert Einstein

"DO NOT ADJUST YOUR MIND: IT IS REALITY THAT IS MALFUNCTIONING!"
Robert Anton Wilson

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
Arthur Schopenhauer

"You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which you must see the world."
George Bernard Shaw

"Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are."
Grant Morrison

"Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying."
Ram Dass

"All that is, is metaphor."
Noramn O. Brown, Closing Time

"I never aimed at reality; I aimed at truth. Look at Cagney. Nothing he ever did on screen was realistic, but it was all true."
Orson Welles

"Your beliefs can be like fences that surround you. You must first see them or you will not even realize that you are not free, simply because you will not see beyond the fences. They will represent the boundaries of your experience."
SETH / Jane Roberts