"Tell me, Harry, what difference would it make if it wasn't real?" Harry thought a moment, his chinless face sour. "We wouldn't have to do what we t… - Robert Anton Wilson

In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.

"Mind" is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can’t see your own back (without mirrors).

The A<big><big>∴</big></big>A<big><big>∴</big></big> must rank as the most secretive secret society in the world. Perhaps nobody, not even the few writers who have discussed it, knows for sure when the A<big><big>∴</big></big>A<big><big>∴</big></big> began, which group claiming to be the A<big><big>∴</big></big>A<big><big>∴</big></big> at present is the real A<big><big>∴</big></big>A<big><big>∴</big></big>, or even what the symbols A<big><big>∴</big></big>A<big><big>∴</big></big> stand for — although many claim to know these things of course. … Occult historians generally agree that V.V.V.V.V. signified Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici ("By the force of truth I have conquered the universe"), one of the eleven magic mottoes of Aleister Crowley.