Robert Anton Wilson Quotes
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.
belief is the death of intelligence.
"Is," "is," "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.
Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don’t know you're a member until it’s too late to get out.
You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.
The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.
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.
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
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.
We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
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.
Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.
We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe
We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something.
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.
Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.
Magick has many aspects, but primarily it acts as a dramatized system of “psychology
The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.
The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.
Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.
If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.
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.
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
