Governments are based pincipally on force and deception. Democratic governments are based chiefly on deception, other governments on force. And democratic governments, if you get too uppity, give up on the deception and resort to brute force, as a lot… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share
The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share
In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share
It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share
I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share
I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share
“Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think. I detect the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share
I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share
The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share
“When you're dealing with these forces or powers in a philosophic and scientific way, contemplating them from an armchair, that rationalistic approach is useful.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share
“And Spaceship Earth, that glorious and bloody circus, continued its four-billion-year-long spiral orbit about the Sun; the engineering, I must admit, was so exquisite… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share
Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size). — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share
The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share
