People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show truly staggering ability to 'ignore' certain kinds of information - that which does not… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
We're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that we're all… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Relativity and quantum mechanics have demonstrated clearly that what you find out with instruments is true relative only to the instrument you’re… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
You're only infallible about your own nervous system. You know what's going on in your own nervous system, whatever realities you're creating… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Every nervous system creates its own "reality," minute by minute - we live inside a "bubble" of neural abstractions which we identify… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
