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
Robert Anton Wilson quotes about
truth people dare
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
morning mean cnn
Every morning I have been looking at CNN to see if there is any reason for hope . I see a few large and impressive peace protests here and there around the world, but mostly I see empty robot faces monotonously reciting the magic incantations, "We must support the President" and "We must support our troops", both of which mean the killing must continue.
squares miracle church
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
pregnancy men miracle
Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.
horse wife mustache
No wife, no horse, no mustache
brother fighting atheism
Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.
running army people
Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it's National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it's National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it's counter-intelligence.
helping-others helping logical
If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
struggle reality rivals
Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.
laughing make-you-laugh
It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.
depressing thinking cheerful
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.
math class views
I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.
philosophy optimistic mind
...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
taken world granted
There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.