Robert Anton Wilson Quotes
The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.
You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.
Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.
The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.
History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
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.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Mind is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can't see your own back (without mirrors).
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.
Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it.
...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.
...reality is always plural and mutable.
The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it….
Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.
The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.
An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.
People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots.
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.
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 future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.
part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.
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 individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.
