Philosophy Quote by Robert Anton Wilson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.”

“...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.”

“belief is the death of intelligence.”

“These ideas can be made more concrete with a parable, which I borrow from John Fowles’s wonderful novel, The Magus.”

“...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.”

“The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called "model agnosticism" and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the world itself.”

“Distrust of grammar is the first requisite for philosophizing.”

“If translation is realignment, what specifically is getting realigned? Our perceptions, our literary categories, our languages? I would say it's the text's relationship to its audience-who is speaking, who is addressed, where the text is "pointing." Any text can, and any good text will, redirect our perceptions, redefine the genre it's working within, and change the resources or enlarge the scope of the language it's written in, but the particular "realignment" that takes place in translation refers to the vector pointing from author to reader.”

“Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.”

“She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth.”

“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.”

“What foolishness it is to desire more life, after one has tasted”