ROBERT ANTON WILSON

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

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.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

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

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

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

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

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

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

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

A true initiation never ends.

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

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

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.