Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

Life is but thought.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

Reason cannot break out of its own loop.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.

What does a mirror look at?

I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

Beauty can never really understand itself.

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

Would there be trees if we didn't see them?

The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.

What you look at hard seems to look at you.

All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on, you are separate from it. That has become the object and you have become the subject.

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?

Become conscious of being conscious.

Matter is motion outside, mind is motion inside.

I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.