Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

There is no complete theory of anything.

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

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.

A true initiation never ends.

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.

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

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

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

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.

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

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

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

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

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce‘s view of Everyman as victim.

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

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

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.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

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

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.

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

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

Belief is the death of intelligence.