Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.

Your political views really denote your spiritual views.

Our moral philosophy determines our values - what we care about and what we don't care about - and our values determine our decisions, actions, and beliefs. Therefore, moral philosophy applies to everything in our lives.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what will advance the cause or socialism.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

You can't legislate morality.

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Basic religion is the reason we have morals.

Conventionality is not morality.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.