"Belief is the death of intelligence."
— Robert Anton Wilson

"The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization."
— Robert Anton Wilson

"...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable."
— Robert Anton Wilson

"...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. "
— Robert Anton Wilson (Cosmic Trigger I : Final Secret of the Illuminati)

"...reality is always plural and mutable."
— Robert Anton Wilson (Cosmic Trigger I : Final Secret of the Illuminati)

"I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions."
— Robert Anton Wilson

"We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself."
— Robert Anton Wilson (Cosmic Trigger I : Final Secret of the Illuminati)

"Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities."
— Robert Anton Wilson

"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea."
— Robert Anton Wilson

"Entropy requires no maintenance"
— Robert Anton Wilson

"under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.
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— Robert Anton Wilson

"Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy."
— Robert Anton Wilson

"I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions."
— Robert Anton Wilson

"Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history."
— Robert Anton Wilson (Cosmic Trigger Volume II: Down to Earth)

""Is", "is." "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment"
— Robert Anton Wilson

"In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time."
— Robert Anton Wilson (Principia Discordia, Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger)

"Reality is what you can get away with "
— Robert Anton Wilson

"On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break."
— Robert Anton Wilson

"Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons"
— Robert Anton Wilson (The Illuminati Papers)

"Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence"
— Robert Anton Wilson

"No wife, no horse, no mustache"
— Robert Anton Wilson

"She was a woman with red hair and green eyes— the traits which Satan supposedly relished most in mortal females."
— Robert Anton Wilson

"The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want."
— Robert Anton Wilson

"Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission."
— Robert Anton Wilson

"We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor."
— Robert Anton Wilson

"Wise men have regarded the earth as a tragedy, a farce, even an illusionist's trick; but all, if they are truly wise, and not merely intellectual rapists, recognize that it is certainly some kind of stage in which we all play roles, most of us being very poorly coached and totally unrehearsed before the curtain rises. Is it too much if I ask, tentatively, that we agree to look upon it as a circus, a touring carnival wandering about the sun for a record season of four billion years and producing new monsters and miracles, hoaxes and bloody mishaps, wonders and blunders, but never quite entertaining the customers well enough to prevent them from leaving, one by one, and returning to their homes for a long and bored winter's sleep under the dust?"
— Robert Anton Wilson

""help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more""
— Robert Anton Wilson (The Illuminati Papers)

"Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars."
— Robert Anton Wilson

"Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there’s a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do look for the doorway and stop bumping into the wall"
— Robert Anton Wilson

"This special green is the result of high copper concentration in the soil."
— Robert Anton Wilson

"We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature," but the study of emic realities shows, quite the contraty, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such."
— Robert Anton Wilson

"Of course there are robots among us. There are also Magicians among us. I think we take turns playing each role, as a matter of fact. The Magician defines a reality-mesh and the robot lives in it. Grok?"
— Robert Anton Wilson

"Of course."
— Robert Anton Wilson

"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