Quotations from

Robert Anton Wilson

About

Picture of Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson; January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American writer, futurist, psychologist, and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized within Discordianism as an Episkopos, pope and saint, Wilson helped publicize Discordianism through his writings and interviews. In 1999 he described his work as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth". Wilson's goal was "to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone but agnosticism about everything."

from Wikipedia

Quotes from Robert Anton Wilson

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

—Robert Anton Wilson

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

—Robert Anton Wilson

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

—Robert Anton Wilson

We say, "Seeing is believing," but actually . . . we are all much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe nearly all the time and only occasionally seeing what we can't believe.

—Robert Anton Wilson

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.

—Robert Anton Wilson

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

—Robert Anton Wilson