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
brain religion damage
I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
motivational thinking thinker
What the thinker thinks, the prover proves
animal ink-and-paper territory
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
taken intelligent government
To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense.
communication mean power
A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
religious war liars
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
ego fiction blame
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
size existence models
Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence....
goal people trying
My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.
faith atheist believe
Belief is the death of intelligence.
sex robots roles
Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
faith believe thinking
My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
wise secret enlightenment
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.
cynical cynicism idealism
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.