Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

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... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

The average is that which no person quite ever is... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind.. view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

Only the madman is absolutely sure... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

There is no complete theory of anything... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

The Grail is the womb of the beloved... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

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... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

There are gods, but there is no God.. view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

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

By: Robert Anton Wilson

The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

Groups are grammatical fictions.. view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

A true initiation never ends... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

Belief is the death of intelligence... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

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

By: Robert Anton Wilson

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves... view

By: Robert Anton Wilson

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

By: Robert Anton Wilson

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

By: Robert Anton Wilson