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
information flow sanity
Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.
serious apes planets
We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?
mirrors mind tools
Mind is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can't see your own back (without mirrors).
intelligent way fours
The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.
meaningful war people
People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians- meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive.
impression humans human-beings
I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.
optimism looks dread
I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.
philosophical emotional mind
Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.
thinking giants might
A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants
illumination laughing chance
If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.
educational thinking people
People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots.
running children school
Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.
law catholic libertarian
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'.
born minutes seekers
There's a seeker born every minute.