Quotes By Robert Anton Wilson

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

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

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

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

The average is that which no person quite ever is.

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

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

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

There is no complete theory of anything.

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

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.

Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.

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

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

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

Belief is the death of intelligence.

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.

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

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

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.

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

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.