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
way principles action
The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization.
way-forward way path
The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.
way born brainwashed
The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.
intelligent way fours
The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.
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.
people
It's only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see it.
The average is that which no person quite ever is.
cynics equally everybody except idealists regard
Cynics regard everybody as equally corrupt... idealists regard everybody equally corrupt, except themselves.
alone god people state
My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.
Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.
horror natural
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
children leaving poverty
I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.
meditation labels hopeless
I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively.
opportunity opportunities-to-learn hinder
The things that hinder me are opportunities to learn more and develop further.