Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

• Belief is the death of intelligence.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Topics in Belief, Intelligence, Religion

  Tags in Philosophy, Faith

• Reality is always plural and mutable.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophy
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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.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Topics in God, Religion

  Tags in Important, Single

• When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophy

• When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Topics in History, Uncategorized

  Tags in Marriage, United

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

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Topics in History, Uncategorized

  Tags in Last, Natural

• A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Means, Production

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

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Animals, Paper, Humans

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

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Become, Master

• A true initiation never ends.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in True, Ends, Initiation

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real, Sense, Unreal

• Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Infinite, Regress, Explains

• Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Whole, Universe, Point

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

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Ego, Blame

• Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Certitude, Belong

• Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They’re the ones who look like hippies.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Look, Around, Everyone

• Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Different, Individual, Exist

• History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce’s view of Everyman as victim.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in View, Victim

• 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.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Topics in God

  Tags in Liars, Struggle

• Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Live, Through, Endure

Robert Anton Wilson (50)

Birth:	18th January, 1932
Death:	11th January, 2007
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author

About

Robert Anton Wilson, known to friends as "Bob", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic.

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