Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

belief is the death of intelligence.

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

...reality is always plural and mutable.

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.

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 Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

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 future they want.