Quotes from Robert Anton Wilson

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.

Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.

Reality is what you can get away with.

The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.

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

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

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.

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 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.

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

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

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

The Grail is the womb of the beloved.

There is no complete theory of anything.

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

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

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

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

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.

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

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

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