Quotes By Robert Anton Wilson

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

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

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

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

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

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

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.

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

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

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.