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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Inevitably it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes an authority or established convention': a . ...And if enough people come to agree with—and follow—the , we now have a . Until, of course, still mo...

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For the man in the street, the philosophies of opposites, particularly Good and Evil, have served as a torture chamber, a crucifix made from metaphor. Thrust into a world which views him as the property of Gods and States and overwhelmed by an unrepa...

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The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.

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You know the difference between right and wrong,' he repeated finally. 'Man, why did you need Initiation—by the Golden Dawn, or by anybody else? You are a genius, a sage, a giant among men. You have solved the problem which philosophers have been d...

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We all see only that which we are trained to see.

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There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

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belief is the death of intelligence.

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Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of scienc...

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

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The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called "model agnosticism" and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the world itself. , the semanticist, tried to popular...

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...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

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All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.

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Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

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Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

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Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

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I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

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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.

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On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

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Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

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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.

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The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

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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