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
Robert Anton Wilson quotes about
book reading fiction
The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times.
levels accepting prove
You can "prove" anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning.
song earth easier
The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
stars shining privilege
It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.
reality endure myth
We live in our myths, we only endure reality.
names conspiracy coalitions
Conspiracy is just another name for coalition.
business government views
The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
want want-to-be-happy ifs
If you want to be happy, practise it every day
faith book space
Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very childish forms of conceit in a world of infinitely whirling complexity. None of us can see enough from one corner of space-time to know "all" about the rest of space-time.
intelligent opportunity stupidity
If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see the opportunities in modern science are not adroit enough to outmaneuver the forces of inertia, stupidity and greed. Well, if we're not intelligent enough to overcome such obstacles, then we don't deserve to carry off the mutation at this stage of evolution.
taken world granted
There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
philosophy optimistic mind
...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
laughing make-you-laugh
It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.
math class views
I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.