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Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

Robert Anton Wilson quotes

American Writer January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007

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Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking. Robert Anton Wilson
When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity. Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson quote: "The fear of death is the beginning of slavery."
The fear of death is the beginning of slavery. Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson quote: "There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become..."
There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually. Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson quote: "In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as..."
In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time. Robert Anton Wilson
The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to an outsider. The eucharist is just sublimated cannibalism, to the unawakened. When the Pope kisses the feet of the laity, he looks like an old toe-queen to some people. The rites of Pan look like a suburban orgy. Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson quote: "Belief is the death of intelligence."
Belief is the death of intelligence. Robert Anton Wilson
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. Alfred Korzybski, the semanticist, tried to popularize this outside physics with the slogan, "The map is not the territory." Alan Watts, a talented exegete of Oriental philosophy, restated it more vividly as "The menu is not the meal. Robert Anton Wilson
All of us should treasure his (John Dillinger) Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks: 'Just lie down on the floor and keep calm. Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson quote: "Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone..."
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves. Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson quote: "The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big..."
The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct. Robert Anton Wilson
Is", "is." "is"? the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment Robert Anton Wilson
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. Robert Anton Wilson
There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already. Robert Anton Wilson
The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want. Robert Anton Wilson

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