Robert Anton Wilson

“History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.”

“Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.”

“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.”

“Belief is the death of intelligence.”

“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.”

“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.”

“A true initiation never ends.”

“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.”

“The Grail is the womb of the beloved.”

“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.”

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

“The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.”

“The average is that which no person quite ever is.”

“Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.”

“Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude.”

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

“Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.”

“The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.”

“Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.”

“...reality is always plural and mutable.”