Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilsonwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 January 1932
CountryUnited States of America
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cynics equally everybody except idealists regard
Cynics regard everybody as equally corrupt... idealists regard everybody equally corrupt, except themselves.
horror natural
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
slavery fear-of-death
The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
europe two patriotism
"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others."
intelligent jail choices
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
love philosophy inspiration
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
coincidence consciousness infinite
Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
attitude reality tunnels
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 science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude.
money weapons taxation
Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons
atheist cutting random-chance
I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it….
goes-on conclusion
In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.
weakness individual obedience
The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
metaphor constructs trapped
We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.
goal slave enlightened
An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.