Robert Anton Wilson

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

It's only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see it.

The average is that which no person quite ever is.

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

Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only say, "This model"- or theory, or interpretation of the data- "fits more of the facts known at this date than any rival model." We can never know if the model will fit the facts that might come to light in the next millennium or even in the next week.

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.

I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

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

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

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

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

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.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

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.

Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction

We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something.

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.