Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

Everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you've imagined it to be.

There are many levels of truth.

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

It's pretty much a fact that our entire universe is a mental construct. We don't actually deal with reality directly. We simply compose a picture of reality from what's going on in our retinas, in the timpani of our ears, and in our nerve endings.

And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

Everything is only a dream.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.