Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.

It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth that becomes the story that only you can tell.

The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.

Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate. I've always been very aware of that, more conscious of who I am, how I fit in the thing as opposed to trying to emulate someone else. Though, sometimes I try to emulate De Niro all the time, who is someone I could never be.

I was the world in which I walked.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.

I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as he sees himself, as he sees his own kind.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

One of the other reasons for writing this book [My Beloved World] was to hold on to the person you first met. More of the world knows about me now and follows me in a way that never happened before. I didn't want me, the inside of me, to change. Because I liked Sonia, the Sonia who has been. So another reason for writing the book was to hold on to that - whatever the best in Sonia was, to try to capture it.

There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It’s not a tool to understand myself.

We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.

I try not to take things too personally, because most of the time, people aren't even thinking about anyone else but themselves.

If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you'll notice they almost never said 'I,' and didn't speak in the first person. From Aristotle to Heidegger, they try to consider their own lives as something marginal or accidental. What was essential was their teaching and their thinking. Biography is something empirical and outside, and is considered an accident that isn't necessarily or essentially linked to the philosophical activity or system.

The reason people don't know what is good for them is because most people don't know what they are trying to do.

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like to other people. And the moment you do it's a formula for yourself, and then you're imitating yourself, and then nobody likes you and they dont know why.

I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you'll find in this world.