Robert Anton Wilson Quotes
"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."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: God, Civilization, Bible, Behavior, Key, May)
"The average is that which no person quite ever is."
- Robert Anton Wilson
"The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Fear)
"Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Mind, Reality, Space)
"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."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: God, Soul, Force, Man, Pregnancy, Woman)
"Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey."
- 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."
- Robert Anton Wilson
"Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it."
- Robert Anton Wilson
"The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental."
- Robert Anton Wilson
"On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Choice, Prison, Security)
"Only the madman is absolutely sure."
- Robert Anton Wilson
"There is no complete theory of anything."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Theory)
"The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Theology)
"The Grail is the womb of the beloved."
- Robert Anton Wilson
"The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Earth, Song)
"The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Business, Government, Right)
"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."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: War, God, Evil, Goodness, Influence, Public, Religious, Results, Satan, Struggle)
"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."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Art, Life, Work, Dance, Goal, Now, Right)
"There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: God, Gods)
"We live in our fantasies and endure our realities."
- 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."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: History, Marriage, Drama, Eternity, United)
"You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Love)
"Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Wrong)
"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."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Universe)
"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."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Communication, Formula, May, Production)
"Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different."
- Robert Anton Wilson
"There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Sex)
"Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Blood, Importance, Nothing)
"A true initiation never ends."
- 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."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Sense)
"An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Goal)
"Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Animals)
"Belief is the death of intelligence."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Death, Intelligence, Belief)
"Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Universe)
"Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia."
- Robert Anton Wilson
"Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Consciousness, Infinite)
"Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Ladies, Gentlemen, Majority, Mammals)
"Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves."
- Robert Anton Wilson
"Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Truth, People, Myth)
"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Idea, Conservative, Liberal, Years)
"I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Life, Wrong)
"I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Being)
"Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: History, Horror, Years)
"History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: History, Economics, Psychology)
"Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Hippies)
"Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Myths)
"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."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Church, Earth, Miracles, Obvious)
"Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Time, Blame, Ego, Fiction)