Robert Anton Wilson Quotes
January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007
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There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind . This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.
Robert Anton Wilson— The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975) (with Robert Shea), Part I : The Eye in the Pyramid, p. 32
ONLY THE MADMAN IS ABSOLUTELY SURE.
Robert Anton Wilson— The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975) (with Robert Shea), Part I : The Eye in the Pyramid p. 176 of 1988 edition
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
Robert Anton Wilson— Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977), p. 84
Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?'"
Robert Anton Wilson— The Illuminati Papers (1980), p. 2
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea .
Robert Anton Wilson— The Illuminati Papers (1980), p. 111
A true initiation never ends .
Robert Anton Wilson— Masks of the Illuminati (1981), p. 257
"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others."
Robert Anton Wilson— The Earth Will Shake: The History of the Early Illuminati (The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles Vol. 1) (1982), p. 100
Every morning I have been looking at CNN to see if there is any reason for hope . I see a few large and impressive peace protests here and there around the world, but mostly I see empty robot faces monotonously reciting the magic incantations, "We must support the President" and "We must support our troops", both of which mean the killing must continue.
Robert Anton Wilson— Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth (1991)
Following Korzybski , I put things in probabilities, not absolutes ... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics , to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics , ideology , jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory .
Robert Anton Wilson— Interview in High Times (2003)
I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.
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Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history .
Robert Anton Wilson— Cosmic Trigger II : Down to Earth
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
Robert Anton Wilson— The Widow's Son
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.
Robert Anton Wilson— Nature's God This is a statement derived from one in the Principia Discordia
Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size...)
Robert Anton Wilson— Nature's God
There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
Robert Anton Wilson— The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Sigismundo Celine
Conspiracy is just another name for coalition.
Robert Anton Wilson— The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Luigi Duccio
The illusion of Sin and Guilt, the madness of our species, is the act of cursing the world under the misapprehension that one is cursing only one part of it. To curse the fig tree, as in the funniest and most misunderstood parable of Jesus , is to curse the soil in which it grew, the seed, the rains, the sun; the whole world, eventually because no part is truly separate from the whole . The fallacy is that one can judge the part in isolation from the whole is "the Lie that all men believe."
Robert Anton Wilson— The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Sigismundo Celine
The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth .
Robert Anton Wilson— The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Sigismundo Celine
"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 .
Robert Anton Wilson— The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Sigismundo Celine
The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.
Robert Anton Wilson— The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by M. Gabriel Sartines
Each mans spills the drink he loves.
Robert Anton Wilson— Cosmic Trigger II
Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.
Robert Anton Wilson— The I in the Triangle, speech held at a bookstore in Santa Cruz, California (1990)
The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.
Robert Anton Wilson— rawilson.com website/blog entry (mid 1990s)
Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove. And if the Thinker thinks passionately enough, the Prover will prove the thought so conclusively that you will never talk a person out of such a belief, even if it is something as remarkable as the notion that there is a gaseous vertebrate of astronomical heft (" GOD ") who will spend all eternity torturing people who do not believe in his religion.
Robert Anton Wilson— Ch. 1 : The Thinker & The Prover, p. 28
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
Robert Anton Wilson— Ch. 4 : The Anal Emotional Territiorial Circuit, p. 68
The current rampages of territorial-emotional pugnacity sweeping this planet are not just another civilization failing …:;They are the birth-pangs of a cosmic Prometheus rising out of the long nightmare of domesticated primate history.
Robert Anton Wilson— Ch. 5 : Dickens & Joyce : The Two-Circuit Dialectic, p. 90
"Mind" is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can’t see your own back (without mirrors).
Robert Anton Wilson— Ch. 14 : The Meta Programming Circuit, p. 224
You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.
Robert Anton Wilson— Introduction, p. 16
