Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

Father Ratti had often explained, in Religious Knowledge class, that true humility did not mean a se...

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. ...

He was harassed, but still he spoke with authority. He was, in fact, characteristic of the best type...

Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is becaus...

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrate...

The most thoroughly and relentlessly damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ign...

There is no complete theory of anything.

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

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to loo...

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

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to t...

The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsi...

We're living among infinite possibilities. And the prevalent philosophies of post-modernist pessimis...

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'Go...

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

...reality is always plural and mutable.

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes cert...

Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My curr...

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist re...

belief is the death of intelligence.

When you're dealing with these forces or powers in a philosophic and scientific way, contemplating t...

We all see only that which we are trained to see.

The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'l...

In almost all other professions a man must be able to observe carefully and report accurately what h...

These ideas can be made more concrete with a parable, which I borrow from John Fowles’s wonderful no...

Getting even was the basis of many primate semantic confusions, such as"expropriating the expropriat...

That night he wrote in his diary, "Challenge a remaining taboo." It was that simple. He had always w...

I'm sorry There are some jokes you cannot understand until you have been a fool many, many years and...

How do you get free of the damnable books of Romance when everybody else is still living in them?

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the churc...

But they can rule by fraud, and by fraud eventually acquire access to the tools they need to finish ...

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

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

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