Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense?

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.'

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

We live in a bewildering world.

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

History is totally unpredictable.

We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.

Life is full of ironies and absurdities.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

The world is unpredictable.

Life is funny and weird.