Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

Most of us are a lot more comfortable thinking about and writing about individuals than institutions.

The more you are in public life, the more you wonder at the credulity of the average human being.

What is a political party but a conspiracy?

Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.

One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?

I guess I was a conspiracy theorist when I said "no weapons in Iraq." Now they call that history.

It's no accident that there is a nexus between Trump, Roger Stone and Infowars and Alex Jones. It's very much an Infowars presidency in many ways. The President is a conspiracy theorist. He has reliably touted conspiracy theories. It's a core part of how he processes the world epistemically. That is deeply, deeply dangerous, and disturbing.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going to stand for Parliament. Well, perhaps she was rightbut if more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place to live on this Commencement Day of 1956.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

It's amazing how everything fits together in the world of the Illuminati if you are prepared to dig deep enough.

I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory.

Not every corporation's idyllic.

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don’t know you're a member until it’s too late to get out.

I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.

In the corporate world, if you have analysts, due diligence, and no horse sense, you've just described hell.

As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So, a reason to go into a career in science and technology, or to learn more about these subjects, is to become a more powerful person.

You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

I'm sure there's a range, but I think everyone can pretend.