Quotes from Robert Anton Wilson

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

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

A true initiation never ends.

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.

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

The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.

Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.

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.

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

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.

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

Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it.

The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.