Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson

About Robert Anton Wilson:

Robert Anton Wilson was an American author, novelist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, psychologist, and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized as an Episkopos, Pope, and saint of Discordianism, Wilson helped publicize the group through his writings and interviews.
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Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

Robert Anton Wilson

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

Robert Anton Wilson

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.

Robert Anton Wilson

...reality is always plural and mutable.

Robert Anton Wilson

But they can rule by fraud, and by fraud eventually acquire access to the tools they need to finish the job of killing off the Constitution.' 'What sort of tools?' 'More stringent security measures. Universal electronic surveillance. No-knock laws. S...

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Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

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The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

Robert Anton Wilson

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

Robert Anton Wilson

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.

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The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

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Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

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First, psychotherapy is an art. It is not a science (the human-beings-are-laboratory-rats mentality of the behaviorist notwithstanding). A friend of mine, a philosopher of esthetics, defines art as: anything that people treat as art. So it is with ps...

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The system loves resistance. Resistance is often creative and it feeds on creativity until the subversive becomes just another pre-packaged lifestyle on special offer. So Cease to Resist. Relax and enjoy the PandaemonAeon. Believe everything and anyt...

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Proof then, has retreated in the face of belief. Science, once heralded as the arbiter of truth, has had its facade of objectivity punctured. Intellectuals may point to the uncertainty of Heisenberg, but generally this has more to do with the growing...

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Freedom like charity, begins at home. No man is worthy to fight in the cause of freedom unless he has conquered his internal masters. He must learn control and discipline over the disastrous passions that would lead him to folly and ruin. He must con...

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Other than damnation I know no magic to satisfy your wishes; for ye believe one thing, desire another, speak unlike, act differently and obtain the living value.

Robert Anton Wilson

As the social matrix becomes increasingly subject to rapid fluctuations, throwing out anchors into a collectivised past becomes more prominent than movement into a future. The desire to establish a core identity within the profusion of styles has led...

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To say that one goes on holiday is to speak the language of the working class, for whom the time off appears merry and playful; but to say one goes on vacation is to speak the language of the ruling class. comes from the same root as and reflects wha...

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The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from , not : to follow one's own path, not that of the crowd.

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Author Bio

  • NameRobert Anton Wilson
  • DescriptionAmerican author and polymath
  • AliasesRobert Edward Wilson
  • BornJanuary 18, 1932
  • DiedJanuary 11, 2007
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Philosopher; Essayist
  • AwardsPrometheus Award - Hall Of Fame