Words matter. These are the best Robert Anton Wilson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They’re the ones who look like hippies.
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
It’s only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see it.
Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.
There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
The Right’s view of government and the Left’s view of big business are both correct.
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.
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.
Of course I’m crazy, but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong.
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.
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
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.
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.
I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there’s no rational life here.
Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.
An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
The abandoned infant’s cry is rage, not fear.
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 average is that which no person quite ever is.
The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
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 longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
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.
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt… Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren’t even mammals.
