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."
pain ignorance passion
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.
law violence rich
The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.
block reality tunnels
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.
depression crazy mean
Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
intelligent jail choices
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
grief men anxiety
under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.
love philosophy inspiration
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
stupidity political balance
I read at least one periodical every month by a political group I dislike - to keep some sense of balance. The overwhelming stupidity of political movements is caused by the fact that political types never read anything but their own gang's agit-prop.
coincidence consciousness infinite
Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
struggle mad interesting
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.