Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.

The Grail is the womb of the beloved.

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

It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.

If you want to be happy, practise it every day

Creativity has a touch of the bizarre

Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

Each mans spills the drink he loves.

You can "prove" anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning.

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

There is no complete theory of anything.

Like what you like, enjoy what you enjoy, and don't take crap from anybody.

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

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.

O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.

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

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.

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.

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think.

The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.

There's a great universe just next door.

I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.

The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.

Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.

All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid in dark coners, nooks, and sink holes.

People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.

He who lives happiest has forgotten most

Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.

I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject.

Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.

Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!

The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.

I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.

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.

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

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 church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.