"Belief is the death of intelligence." — Robert Anton Wilson

"Belief is the death of intelligence."

— Robert Anton Wilson

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158 Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson has 158 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This…
Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.
O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what…
I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet…
Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.
All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid…
Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse…
To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits,…
Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a…
What the thinker thinks, the prover proves

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More Atheism Quotes

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from… — Aristotle
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal… — Francis Bacon
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased… — Francis Bacon
You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God. — Tammy Faye Bakker
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery,… — Mikhail Bakunin
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the… — Douglas Adams
Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves. — Brigitte Bardot
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. — Edward Abbey

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