Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

“Who knows? Life may just be a Positive Conspiracy bent on putting us in the right place at the right time every living, breathing moment of the day. It just takes a certain kind of perspective to see this. Realizing this can put our "analyzer" on hold, our interpretive mind on "ga-ga" and our hearts on breathless.”
― Antero Alli, Angel Tech: A Modern Shamans Guide to Reality Selection

“I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.) - Robert Anton Wilson”
― Robert Anton Wilson

“1. Words can never say what words can never say.
2. With the right reader at the right time, words can, in fact, say what they can never say.
One of those propositions is the most dangerous lie in this book. Can you see which one it is?

By Robert Anton Wilson in the introduction of the book.”
― Hyatt S. Christopher, To Lie Is Human: Not Getting Caught Is Divine

“The earth and the sky and the heaven are one. To divide them for convenience is one thing—to act as if this division were truth is another.

By Robert Anton Wilson in the introduction of the book.”
― Hyatt S. Christopher, To Lie Is Human: Not Getting Caught Is Divine

“Every artist who moves us, from a movie maker to Beethoven or Shakespeare, is a bit of a hypnotist. In this sense that seemingly stupid and mechanical contraption we call "society" must rank as the greatest artist on the planet. For instance, when I was seven or eight, and feeling superior to the kids who closed their eyes "during the scary parts," I was entering a deep hypnosis created by another Virtual Reality called language. This hypnosis was a worse nightmare than the Wicked Witch of the West or King Kong or the Wolf-Man or any of their kith and kin, but it made me a "member of society”.

By Robert AntonWilson in the introduction of the book.”
― Hyatt S. Christopher, To Lie Is Human: Not Getting Caught Is Divine

“Language shifted, as it always does…they endured the harsh world. They softened their edges in an attempt to soften the edges of opposing forces. Sometimes this didn’t work. Sometimes it worked. They sought a cure no more. They realized the cure is the journey of the struggle. They realized that those times of sharp edges come from the top of the pyramid, from a few, and not some swarm of many infected, evil souls.”
― Chase Griffin

“If the powder is in fact book powder, myths say you will imbibe the secrets of the book and your perspective of the universe will be forever changed.”
― Chase Griffin, How To Play A Necromancer's Theremin