Robert Anton Wilson Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Men, Discovery, Innovation

• Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Squares, Miracle, Church

• The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Song, Earth, Easier

• 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.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Stars, Moon, Land

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

• I've recently noticed "as if for the first time" that when people pray they always look "upward" - i.e. perpendicular to whatever place they're standing - or kneeling or groveling. I deduce that they conceive of their "god" as topologically isomorphic to a huge donut, about a thousand miles wider than Earth.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  People, Kneeling, Firsts

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