Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

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.

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.

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

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

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.

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

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

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

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

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

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

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

A true initiation never ends.

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

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

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

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

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

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

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

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

There is no complete theory of anything.

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.

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

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

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.

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.

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

It's only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see it.

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

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

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

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

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.

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

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.