Quotes 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

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

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

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

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

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

A true initiation never ends.

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

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

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

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

The average is that which no person quite ever is.

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