Robert Anton Wilson

Belief is the death of intelligence.

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

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

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

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

All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.

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

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.