I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude:… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove. And if the Thinker thinks passionately enough, the Prover will prove the thought so… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“But once you have a belief system everything that comes in either gets ignored if it doesn't fit the belief system or… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
