Atrophy Quote by Robert Anton Wilson Download Open image “I regard belief as a form of brain damage.” — Robert Anton Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atrophy Belief Brain Brain damage Damage Faith Form Fracture Regard Religion
I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated. — Jena Malone 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 about that… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Belief is the unmitigated, simplest form of mental representation. It’s a psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be… — Michael Khatkar 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
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things you need… — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money. — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to rot our… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy. — Tom Platz Copy Share Image
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some variety of infirmity is a death, a putting… — Coleman Dowell Copy Share Image