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Robert Anton Wilson

(1932–2007) Novelist United States

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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 · Page 7

“Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.”

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Esoteric wisdom

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“This special green is the result of high copper concentration in the soil.”

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Copper

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I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

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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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I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance!…

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Atheist

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We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the…

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Can't change

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“I'm sorry There are some jokes you cannot understand until you have been a fool many, many years and thought yourself finally…

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Comedy

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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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Authoritarian

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Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

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Animal

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

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Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos…

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Art

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All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing…

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Brain

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If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see…

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There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense…

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"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian…

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Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional…

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Crusade

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In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition…

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Death

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Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that…

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I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant…

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Atheism

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

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Agnosticism

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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

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Pessimism

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The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

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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…

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Church

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The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of…

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“I can summarize my thoughts now by simply saying each must find his or her own Way because "the way" does not…

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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…

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Belief

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Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't…

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The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process…

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Action

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Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.

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Brain

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A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in…

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Communication

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To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare…

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Brain

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People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present,…

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Action

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Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a strange doctrine…

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“But once you have a belief system everything that comes in either gets ignored if it doesn't fit the belief system or…

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Belief

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