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Best 98 Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson – Page 2 of 4

“We have been told over and over that 'you can't change human nature', but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become 'human nature' if society defines it as such.”

“You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.”

Cosmic Trigger Quotes

“An optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.”

Cosmic Trigger

“Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.”

Cosmic Trigger

“Every morning I have been looking at CNN to see if there is any reason for hope.”

Cosmic Trigger

“Reality is always plural and mutable.”

Cosmic Trigger

“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.”

Cosmic Trigger

“When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.”

Cosmic Trigger

Down to Earth Quotes

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

Down to Earth

“On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.”

Down to Earth

Everything Is Under Control Quotes

“Many tribal peoples have both all-male and all-female secret societies, which help maintain the cultural values or reality tunnel. Freemasonry is certainly the largest, and probably the oldest, and still the most controversial of the all-male secret societies surviving in our world. No two scholars can even agree on how old it is, much less on how 'good' or 'evil' it is.”

Everything Is Under Control

“You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.”

Everything Is Under Control

Leviathan Quotes

“In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.”

Leviathan

“The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say 'No' and take the consequences.”

Leviathan

Masks of the Illuminati Quotes

“A true initiation never ends.”

Masks of the Illuminati

“Encounters with death and danger are only adventures to the survivors.”

Masks of the Illuminati

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“The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.”


More quotes by Wilhelm Reich

“How many times have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens inward. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice.”

Masks of the Illuminati

“In almost all other professions a man must be able to observe carefully and report accurately what he has seen. Those qualifications are unnecessary for journalists, however, since their job is to write sensational stories that sell newspapers.”

Masks of the Illuminati

“Ipsum Nomen Res Ipsa: The Name Itself is the Thing Itself.”

Masks of the Illuminati

“No wife, no horse, no moustache.”

Masks of the Illuminati

“Only the madman is absolutely sure.”

Masks of the Illuminati

“The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.”

Masks of the Illuminati

“We all see only that which we are trained to see.”

Masks of the Illuminati

“Wishing to prove oneself right is the usual motive for scholarship.”

Masks of the Illuminati

Nature's God Quotes

“Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence.”

Nature's God

“Mast*rbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think. I detect the aroma of this pleasant vice in most philosophers, and a happily married logicians is almost a contradiction in terms. So many sages have regarded Woman as temptress because fornication often leads to marriage, which usually leads to children, which always leads to a respectable job and pretending to believe the idiocies your neighbors believe. The hypocrisy of the sages has been to conceal their timid onanism and call it celibacy.”

Nature's God

“The Greatest thing about mast*rbation is that it is always available. I wager that many a condemn man has consoled himself this way during the night before his execution.”

Nature's God

“When the pope sits on the chamber pot to shit, does he believe in his own infallibility? Does not every imposter occasionally recognize his own hairy, homely humanity? Perhaps not; worn long enough, sometimes the Mask of Authority becomes the man. Even looking in a mirror, he will see the sacred Mask and not his own ordinary human face.”

Nature's God

Prometheus Rising Quotes

“All experience is a muddle, until we make a model to explain it. The model can clarify the muddles, but the model is never the muddle itself. The map is not the territory; the menu does not taste like the meal.”

Prometheus Rising

“All that we 'know' is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir Humphrey Davy noted when self-experimenting with nitrous oxide in 1819, and as Buddha noticed by sitting alone until all his social imprints atrophied and dropped away.”

Prometheus Rising

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“A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.”


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