All Robert Anton Wilson Quotes
- Reality is what you can get away with. Get Away
- Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything… Abolished
- Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over… All
- Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the… Ability
- 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… Accept
- We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor. All
- help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more Conquer
- We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost… Almost Anything
- Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars. Everybody
- There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data… Available
- Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel --… Absurd
- The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists… Action
- Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental… Added
- The fear of death is the beginning of slavery. Beginning
- 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, to… Always Appear
- All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir… All
- In summary, Intelligence Intensification is desirable, because there is not a single problem confronting humanity that is not either caused or considerably worsened by the… Badly
- part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations. Backward
- We all see only that which we are trained to see. All
- The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and… Ability
- In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain… Condition
- The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different… All
- Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular… Accepted
- The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists… Activity
- I have read a great deal of economic theory for over 50 years now, but have found only one economic "law" to which I can… Any