Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction

Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.

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.

I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it….

Reality is what you can get away with.

My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.

If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?

We live in our myths, we only endure reality.

Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.

Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it.

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.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.

People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots.

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

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

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

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

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.