18 Quotes By Robert Anton Wilson


The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
Robert Anton Wilson on alone

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
Robert Anton Wilson on business

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
Robert Anton Wilson on communication

Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson on death

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
Robert Anton Wilson on fear

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
Robert Anton Wilson on god

Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.
Robert Anton Wilson on god

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.
Robert Anton Wilson on government

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
Robert Anton Wilson on government

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
Robert Anton Wilson on history

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
Robert Anton Wilson on history

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
Robert Anton Wilson on history

Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson on intelligence

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
Robert Anton Wilson on love

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
Robert Anton Wilson on marriage

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
Robert Anton Wilson on time

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson on truth

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
Robert Anton Wilson on war