Robert Anton Wilson Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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.

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

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

We live in our myths, we only endure reality.

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

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.

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.

Reality is what you can get away with.

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….

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.

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.

Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction