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

“belief is the death of intelligence.”

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

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

“...reality is always plural and mutable.”

“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.”

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

“No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.”

“Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.”

“No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.”

“Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.”

“War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end.”