Robert Anton Wilson quotes

Robert Anton Wilson was an American author, philosopher, and futurist best known for the "Illuminatus!" trilogy and his work on consciousness and reality. His writings blend satire, science fiction, psychology, and skepticism, challenging conventional beliefs. He explored themes of perception, conspiracy, and personal freedom throughout his prolific career. Here are 162 of his quotes:

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth. (Robert Anton Wilson)
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. View quote
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Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals. View quote
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You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you. View quote
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Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history. View quote
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A true initiation never ends. View quote
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Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper. View quote
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Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. View quote
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Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. View quote
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Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different. View quote
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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)
Belief is the death of intelligence. View quote
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Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities. View quote
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On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. View quote
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Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat. View quote
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... when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. View quote
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I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions. View quote
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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. View quote
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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. View quote
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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. View quote
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Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size...) (Robert Anton Wilson)
Each mans spills the drink he loves. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world. View quote
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"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still. View quote
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