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Robert Anton Wilson

(1932–2007) Novelist United States

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Robert Anton Wilson says boredom can be chased away by making your mind bigger. He also calls disobedience a original virtue and warns that new ideas often look like blasphemies at first. He believes truth will spread when everyone can speak honestly, even if some people think everything is corrupt.

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Robert Anton Wilson was a novelist from the United States, best known for Cosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminati.

Quick Facts About Robert Anton Wilson

Born: January 18, 1932
Died: January 11, 2007
Nationality: United States
Profession: Novelist
Notable works: Cosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminati

About Robert Anton Wilson

In 1999 Wilson said his work tried to break down conditioned associations and to view the world as a set of models or maps, without treating any one as the absolute truth. He said his aim was to help people adopt a generalized agnosticism about everything, not just about God.

Awards & Honors

Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame

Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson

“See you when tea is hot.”

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Coffee

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Communication is only possible between equals.

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Communication

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I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

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Entropy requires no maintenance.

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Entropy

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The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

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Beginning

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He who lives happiest has forgotten most

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The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

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A true initiation never ends.

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Like what you like, enjoy what you enjoy, and don't take crap from anybody.

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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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Conservative

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Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).

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Esoteric wisdom

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We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

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People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.

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Belief

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

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The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.

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I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.

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Ability

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If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.

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Chance

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The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have…

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If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

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Belief

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Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

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Angry

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“ G.W.F. Hegel . "He's perfect," Weishaupt wrote… "Unlike Kant , who makes sense only in German, this man doesn't make sense…

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Hegel

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We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time…

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Buddhism

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“Nothing in this book is an attempt to prevent the really resolute misery addicts from continuing their pursuit of frustration and failure.”

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Book

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The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe…

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Path

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Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire…

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Behavior

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In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it.…

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I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which…

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Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies…

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Ability

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To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be…

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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…

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If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day.…

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Cheerful

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Every morning I have been looking at CNN to see if there is any reason for hope. I see a few large…

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Around the world

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Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every…

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Discovery

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“Little Tony was sitting on a park bench munching on one candy bar after another. After the 6th candy bar a man…

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Candy bar

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“Privilege implies exclusion from privilege, just as advantage implies disadvantage," Celine went on. "In the same mathematically reciprocal way, profit implies loss.…

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Equality

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I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but…

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“I worked, long ago, in New York City, in construction, like many young men of the Mohawk Nation. I found that whites…

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Leadership

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“When we meet somebody whose separate tunnel-reality is obviously far different from ours, we are a bit frightened and always disoriented. We…

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Misunderstandings

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“When you're dealing with these forces or powers in a philosophic and scientific way, contemplating them from an armchair, that rationalistic approach…

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Demons

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We're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that we're all…

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Robert Anton Wilson by topic

People (27) Reality (18) Faith (17) Belief (16) Thinking (15) Inspirational (15) World (14) Politics (13) Fear (13) Humans (12) Death (11) Time (10) Life (10)