{"author":"Robert Anton Wilson","author_id":"Robert+Anton+Wilson","total_quotes":39,"quotes":[{"text":"...An optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.","author":"Robert Anton Wilson","tags":["metaphysics","philosophy"],"id":1060,"author_id":"Robert+Anton+Wilson"},{"text":"Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.","author":"Robert Anton Wilson","tags":["god","struggle","evil "],"id":23228,"author_id":"Robert+Anton+Wilson"},{"text":"He was harassed, but still he spoke with authority. He was, in fact, characteristic of the best type of dominant male in the world at this time. He was fifty-five years old, tough, shrewd, unburdened by the complicated ethical ambiguities which puzzle intellectuals, and had long ago decided that the world was a mean son-of-a-bitch in which only the most cunning and ruthless can survive. He was also as kind as was possible for one holding that ultra-Darwinian philosophy; and he genuinely loved children and dogs, unless they were on the site of something that had to be bombed in the National Interest. He still retained some sense of humor, despite the burdens of his almost godly office, and, although he had been impotent with his wife for nearly ten years now, he generally achieved orgasm in the mouth of a skilled prostitute within 1.5 minutes. He took amphetamine pep pills to keep going on his grueling twenty-hour day, with the result that his vision of the world was somewhat skewed in a paranoid direction, and he took tranquilizers to keep from worrying too much, with the result that his detachment sometimes bordered on the schizophrenic; but most of the time his innate shrewdness gave him a fingernail grip on reality.","author":"Robert Anton Wilson","tags":["humor","politicians"],"id":46093,"author_id":"Robert+Anton+Wilson"},{"text":"Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.","author":"Robert Anton Wilson","tags":["ideology","people","religion","self-consciousness"],"id":49925,"author_id":"Robert+Anton+Wilson"},{"text":"We all see only that which we are trained to see.","author":"Robert Anton Wilson","tags":["bias","perception"],"id":50516,"author_id":"Robert+Anton+Wilson"},{"text":"The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.","author":"Robert Anton Wilson","tags":["future"],"id":59347,"author_id":"Robert+Anton+Wilson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Robert Anton Wilson","tags":["anton","religion"],"id":65850,"author_id":"Robert+Anton+Wilson"},{"text":"Belief is the death of intelligence.","author":"Robert Anton Wilson","tags":["atheism","belief","faith","intelligence","metaphysics","philosophy","religion"],"id":90769,"author_id":"Robert+Anton+Wilson"},{"text":"Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.","author":"Robert Anton Wilson","tags":["reality","mind","size "],"id":101047,"author_id":"Robert+Anton+Wilson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Robert Anton Wilson","tags":["metaphysics","philosophy"],"id":112437,"author_id":"Robert+Anton+Wilson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":39,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}