Robert Anton Wilson quotes - Page : 3

" Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history. " # History and Historians # Horror # Nature

" 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. " # Churches # Love # Education

" Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. " # Education

" 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. " # Science and Scientists # Failure # Love

" Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size...) " # Models and Modeling

" There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world. " # Freedom

" Conspiracy is just another name for coalition. " # Alliances

" The illusion of Sin and Guilt, the madness of our species, is the act of cursing the world under the misapprehension that one is cursing only one part of it. To curse the fig tree, as in the funniest and most misunderstood parable of Jesus, is to curse the soil in which it grew, the seed, the rains, the sun; the whole world, eventually — because no part is truly separate from the whole. The fallacy is that one can judge the part in isolation from the whole is "the Lie that all men believe." " # Jokes and Jokers # Love # Jesus Christ

" "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. " # Poetry and Poets # Words # Love

" The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles. " # Democracy # Royalty # Republican