Top 15 Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

belief is the death of intelligence.

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.

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

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

under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.

I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

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

In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.

In conclusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.

...reality is always plural and mutable.

"Is," "is," "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.

Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.

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

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