Quote

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

Robert Anton Wilson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Anton Wilson
Age: 74 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 18
Died: 2007
Died: January 11
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Psychologist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Flatbush
Long Island
Robert Edward Wilson
Fear
Infant
Abandoned
Rage
Cry

More quotes by Robert Anton Wilson

Image
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.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a strange doctrine and almost implies that God and the devil must have collaborated on the creation of humanity, God working above the belly button and the Devil below.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway, the priest added cynically, which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.
Robert Anton Wilson