Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of the seamless continuity between the world outside and the world within, delivering another major hit to the old fraud of objectivity. 'Real,' as Kevin Kelly put it, 'is going to be one of the most relative words we'll have.'

The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

There is no unique picture of reality.

What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

Your version of the truth is all that matters.

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams.

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.

Reality is the completion of experience.

...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.

There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.

The problem is we think we exist.