Robert Anton Wilson is a famous Writer from USA, he/she is 92 years old and still alive, born January 18, 1932.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac capricorn, who is known for Determination, Dominance, Perservering, Practical, Willful.
Our collection contains 45 quotes who is written / told by Robert, under the main topic Intelligence.
45 Famous quotes by Robert Anton Wilson
"I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here"
"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"
"The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental"
"Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves"
"The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill"
"Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong"
"A true initiation never ends"
"Belief is the death of intelligence"
"Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat"
"Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different"
"Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation"
"Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper"
"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"
"The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now"
"The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct"
"There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated"
"There is no complete theory of anything"
"Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey"
"Only the madman is absolutely sure"
"History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim"
"You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you"
"We live in our fantasies and endure our realities"
"Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves"
"Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame"
"Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences"
"The Grail is the womb of the beloved"
"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"
"Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals"
"I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them"
"The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth"
"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"
"Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it"
"On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break"
"Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history"
"Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia"
"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea"
"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"
"There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually"
"The average is that which no person quite ever is"
"Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church"
"Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities"
"Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies"
"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"
"An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave"
"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"
