The Earth Will Shake Quotes

“I am not a donkey to be led by the carrot of salvation and the stick of damnation without thinking of where they are driving me and what they are making me do.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, The Earth Will Shake: The History of the Early Illuminati

“Father Ratti had often explained, in Religious Knowledge class, that true humility did not mean a sense of worthlessness or the kind of timidity that caused some people to be cheated and bullied all their lives. The virtue of humility, Ratti said, was merely the faculty of intelligence operating properly "The man of wisdom," Ratti explained once, "fears only one man on earth. Do you know who that is?" And when everybody guessed wrong — some said the Pope, some said King Ferdinand — Ratti said, "The man of wisdom fears himself. He knows who it is who tells him the most plausible lies, the lies he wants to believe.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, The Earth Will Shake: The History of the Early Illuminati

“How do you get free of the damnable books of Romance when everybody else is still living in them?”
― Robert Anton Wilson, The Earth Will Shake: The History of the Early Illuminati

“I'm sorry There are some jokes you cannot understand until you have been a fool many, many years and thought yourself finally cured and then found out that you had just become a different kind of fool.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, The Earth Will Shake: The History of the Early Illuminati

“We are all walled cities shouting at each other over the armaments of our preconceptions.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, The Earth Will Shake: The History of the Early Illuminati

“(Always reward the bringers of information, whether the news is good or bad: that was one of his basic rules.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, The Earth Will Shake: Historical Illuminatus Chronicles Volume 1