Quotes from Robert Anton Wilson

Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.

Communication is only possible between equals.

The average is that which no person quite ever is.

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

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.

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.

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

You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

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

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

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.

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

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.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.