Robert Anton Wilson Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

“Belief is the death of intelligence.”

“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.”

“If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.”

“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.”

“I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.”

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

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

“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.”