Top 180 Robert Anton Wilson Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I’m not an anarchist any longer, because I’ve concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

152. “Philadelphia merely seems dull because it’s next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

153. “Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

154. “If I am so fortunate as to be listening to the Hammerklavier sonata, the only correct answer, if you ask me suddenly, “Who are you?” would be to hum the Hammerklavier.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

155. “I would hate to be taken seriously. Serious people are always so grim and uptight that they make me want to dance naked on the lawn playing a flute.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

156. “I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

157. “Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an “artometer” which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

158. “Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

159. “Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

160. “Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

161. “Each mans spills the drink he loves.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

162. “Anyone in the United States today who isn’t paranoid must be crazy.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

163. “What a fantastic piece of hot lustful woman she was, Roger thought irrelevantly.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

164. “Since the Unistat primates, like other domesticated hominids, did not know they were primates, all this was explained by a ferocious amount of ink excretions invoking Morality and Ideology, the twin gods of domesticated primatedom.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

165. “Life is one, but consciousness is divided. It is the stress of the divided consciousness that every visionary is seeking to deal with.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

166. “I’m very interested in Marxist theory. I disagree with it, but I keep thinking about it, because some Marxist theory does seem to work.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

167. “Believe it possible that you can float off the ground and fly by merely willing it. See what happens.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

168. “Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence...”

— Robert Anton Wilson

169. “He who lives happiest has forgotten most.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

170. “Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

171. “Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

172. “This special green is the result of high copper concentration in the soil.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

173. “Here’s what it is, here’s what it isn’t, now here’s why you need to go tell everyone how smart I am.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

174. “I find the universe so staggering that I just don’t have any faith in my ability to grasp it.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

175. “There is no complete theory of anything.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

176. “I’m using myself as a typical 20th century model as I’m trying to make sense out of the world around me.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

177. “Miscommunication, misunderstanding and general misjudgment of one another is vastly increased by the fact that few of us know about these levels of circuitry, and we all tend to assume that the person we are interacting with is on the same circuit we are.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

178. “That night he wrote in his diary, “Challenge a remaining taboo.” It was that simple. He had always wanted to understand genius, and now he had the formula. Freud, living in an age that prized its own seeming rationality, had found one of the remaining taboos and dared to think beyond it: he discovered infant sexuality and the unconscious, among other things. Galileo had gone beyond the taboo “Thou shalt not question Aristotle.” Every great discovery had been the breaking of a taboo.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

179. “Persinger and Lafreniere: We, as a species, exist in a world in which exist a myriad of data points. Upon these matrices of points we superimpose a structure and the world makes sense to us. The pattern of the structure originates within our biological and sociological properties.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

180. “I ask only one thing of skeptics: don’t bring up Soviet Russia, please. That horrible example of State Capitalism has nothing to do with what I, and other libertarian socialists, would offer as an alternative to the present system.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

181. “How about the Federal Reserve, then, which has convinced millions that the paper it prints “is” “real” “money”? Prank or fraud? Or perhaps some species of magick that only other sorcerers can understand?”

— Robert Anton Wilson

182. “The tenth planet beyond Pluto, in this instance, will be discovered, or won’t be discovered, when the space telescope goes into orbit in the near future. The existence of advanced life-forms beyond Earth may not be verified or refuted for a thousand years or longer – or it may be verified tomorrow, if the “Space Brothers” beloved in UFO lore suddenly land en masse – but at present it remains similarly indeterminate.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

183. “We are passing through Chaos but we will not end in Chaos. We still have a starry destiny ahead of us.”

— Robert Anton Wilson