Robert Anton Wilson
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"Robert Anton Wilson" was an American author, novelist, psychologist, essayist, copy editing/editor, playwright, poet, futurist, and self-described agnostic mysticism/mystic. Recognized as an Discordianism#Episkopos/Episkopos, Pope, and saint of Discordianism, Wilson helped publicize the group through his writings and interviews.

Wilson 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". His goal being "to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone but philosophical skepticism/agnosticism about everything."

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Only the madman is absolutely sure.

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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

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Belief is the death of intelligence.

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

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. . . there are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.

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

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Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.

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The shock of discovering that most of the power in the world is held by ignorant and greedy people can really bum you out at first; but after you've lived with it a few decades, it becomes, like cancer and other plagues, just another problem that we will solve eventually if we keep working at it.

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I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

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The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.

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