Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

It's important to be enlightened.

I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

It’s never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can’t see them.

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

Only in unawareness you are mortal. In awareness you are immortal.

Knowledge is the key to making a difference.

When I began to read, I began to exist

One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.