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
government getting-high way
You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.
disciple humans human-beings
A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to.
coincidence consciousness infinite
Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
believe people ridiculous
You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.
reality dope data
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.
metaphor constructs trapped
We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.
inspirational skepticism madmen
Only the madman is absolutely sure.
We all see only that which we are trained to see.
hate liberty movement
Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.
certain process initiation
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
struggle mad interesting
The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.
government giving decision
And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we going to adjust to this. Government can't do anything unless the bank gives them the money to do it.
might moments appearance
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.
giving-up government deception
Governments are based pincipally on force and deception. Democratic governments are based chiefly on deception, other governments on force. And democratic governments, if you get too uppity, give up on the deception and resort to brute force, as a lot of us found out in the sixites. Those who didn't find out in the sixites will find out in the near future because we're going to have a rerun.