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
philosophical emotional mind
Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.
way born brainwashed
The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.
trying world typical
I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.
government offering justice
MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering a way out for your client. Any private individual with a record of such incessant murder and robbery would be glad to cop an insanity plea. Do you insist that your client was in full possession of its reason at Wounded Knee? At Hiroshima? At Dresden?' JUSTICE IMMHOTEP: 'You become facetious, Mr. Celine.' MR. CELINE: 'I have never been more serious.
wall stupid tired
Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there’s a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do look for the doorway and stop bumping into the wall
reality get-away pop-art
Reality is what you can get away with.
maintenance entropy
Entropy requires no maintenance.
emotional people serious
I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.
educational thinking people
People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots.
years lasts horror
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
running children school
Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.
optimism looks dread
I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.
learning blood sweat
Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
hippie looks spots
Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.