Quote

I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.)

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
Anything
System
Writing
Imagination
Fracture
Believe
Opinion
Atrophy
Brain
Damage
Belief
Opinions
Write
Intelligence
Death
Regard
Form
Creativity

More quotes by Robert Anton Wilson

Image
We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
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
part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
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.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don’t even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
Only the madman is absolutely sure.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
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
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
Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
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.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called barbarism and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.
Robert Anton Wilson
Image
Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is obtained through Rothbard's Medieval 'investigation by a reason,' i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed.
Robert Anton Wilson