Robert Anton Wilson: Trending quotes (page 5)

“Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.”

“Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size…)”

“The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.”

“Encounters with death and danger are onlyto the survivors.”

“Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.”

“A true initiation never ends.”

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

“Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.”

“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.”

“I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. "Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance!"”

“Each mans spills the drink he loves.”

“And Spaceship Earth, that glorious and bloody circus, continued its four-billion-year-long spiral orbit about the Sun; the engineering, I must admit, was so exquisite that none of the passengers felt any motion at all. Those on the dark side of the ship mostly slept and voyaged into worlds of freedom and fantasy; those on the light side moved about the tasks appointed for them by their rulers, or idled waiting for the next order from above.”

“No, they were not exactly automatons, but they did not know what they were doing. They take down a boy’s britches. They stare at his buttocks. They cane him until the buttocks bleed. And they believe this is virtue, because it is done in a school, and it becomes vice only if it is done in a place with a red lantern over the door.”

“Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.”

“The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.”

“Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.”

“There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.”

“"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still.”

“You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.”