Robert Anton Wilson

“Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.”

“Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.”

“If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.”

“There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.”

“I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.”

“History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.”

“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.”

“Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.”

“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 Grail is the womb of the beloved.”

“Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.”

“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.”

“A true initiation never ends.”

“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.”

“Only the madman is absolutely sure.”

“Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.”

“On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.”

“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.”