Disliked Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson

Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation…

— Robert Anton Wilson

The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.

— Robert Anton Wilson

In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them,…

— Robert Anton Wilson

It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.

— Robert Anton Wilson

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

— Robert Anton Wilson

I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to…

— Robert Anton Wilson

“Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think. I detect the…

— Robert Anton Wilson

I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am…

— Robert Anton Wilson

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too,…

— Robert Anton Wilson

“When you're dealing with these forces or powers in a philosophic and scientific way, contemplating them from an armchair, that rationalistic approach is useful.…

— Robert Anton Wilson