Quotes By Robert Anton Wilson

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.

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

The average is that which no person quite ever is.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

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

There is no complete theory of anything.

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.

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

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.

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.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

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

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.

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 abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

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.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

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.

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

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

The Grail is the womb of the beloved.

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.

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