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Robert Anton Wilson was an American author and thinker, born on January 18, 1932, and passed away on January 11, 2007. Known for his unique science fiction works and philosophical thoughts, Wilson's writing often delves into themes such as free will, consciousness, religion, and mysticism.

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“I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.”

Humans Causes Morality Regard Misery Ideology Chiefs

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.”

Humans Reality Endure Myth

Book:The Widow's Son

Source: The Widow's Son

“I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.”

Humans Human Beings Impression

Book:The Widow's Son

Source: The Widow's Son

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

Humans Animal Paper Territory Ink Outlines Ink And Paper

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.”

Humans Looks Secret Wise Enlightenment Stones Philosopher Supreme Nervous Nervous System Elixir

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“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.”

Men Should Humans Persons Human Beings Grief Conditions Planets Walking Anxiety Sane Primitive Brutal Wounded Deranged

Author: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.”

Ifs Knows Humans Moments Seems Might Know How Words Appearance Make Sense Subjective Objectivity Subjectivity Human Thought Idiocy

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such.”

Ifs Humans Has Beens Shows Reality Study Human Nature Contrary Can't Change Reality Shows

Book:Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World

Source: Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World

“The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share the same crusading zeal and the same lack of humor, charity and common human decency. These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.”

“Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.”

Humans Whole Social Sex Roles Machines Robots Human Society Brainwashing

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show truly staggering ability to 'ignore' certain kinds of information - that which does not 'fit' their imprinted/ conditioned reality-tunnel”

Humans Kind Doe Shows Reality Certain Ability Animal Information Fit Including Tunnels Staggering Primates

Book:Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World

Source: Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World

“We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something.”

Mind Humans Use Running Resources Human Mind

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to.”

Humans Human Beings Disciple

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

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Born: January 18, 1932
Died: January 11, 2007
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Quotes: 232

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