My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.
— Robert Anton Wilson
If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.
Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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.
There is no complete theory of anything.
The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
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.
Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.
Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
A true initiation never ends.
I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.
It's only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see it.
Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
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.
We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.
There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.
The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
The Grail is the womb of the beloved.
The average is that which no person quite ever is.
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.
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.
I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.
History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
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.
Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.
An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
Only the madman is absolutely sure.
I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
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.
I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
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 path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
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.
