Quotes By Robert Anton Wilson

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

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

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

Belief is the death of intelligence.

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.

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.

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

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

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

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.

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

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

The Grail is the womb of the beloved.

A true initiation never ends.

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

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

The average is that which no person quite ever is.

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

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

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

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

There is no complete theory of anything.