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
listening planets hominids
part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.
slavery fear-of-death
The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
lying reality tunnels
We're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that we're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find that it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. All the ones who don't have the same reality tunnel as us do not seem ignorant, or deliberately perverse, or lying, or hypnotized by some mad ideology, they just have a different reality tunnel. And every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world, if we're willing to listen.
reality
...reality is always plural and mutable.
stars moon land
The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force of arms, nobody "owns" the earth, anymore than the moon, the planets, the stars themselves.
weakness individual obedience
The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
responsibility learning creating
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.
laughing make-you-laugh
It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.
laughing make-you-laugh
It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.
stars shining privilege
It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.
secret finals too-late
Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don’t know you're a member until it’s too late to get out.
mother hurt brother
I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe.
happiness forgotten
He who lives happiest has forgotten most
ignorance age scarcity
We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.