Robert Anton Wilson's Quotes

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

Belief is the death of intelligence.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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