Quotes By Robert Anton Wilson

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

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.

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

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

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

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

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.