Robert Anton Wilson Quotes - Page 8

Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory.

Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there’s a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do look for the doorway and stop bumping into the wall

The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is that there is one map which adequately represents reality. By sheer good luck, every Occidental thinks he or she has the map that fits. Guerrilla ontology, to me, involves shaking up that certainty.

You're only infallible about your own nervous system. You know what's going on in your own nervous system, whatever realities you're creating out of the infinite flux of being. You don't know anything about anybody else's reality unless they tell you about it. You gotta listen very sympathetically in order to understand them. So it's a limited infallibility.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.

Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is obtained through Rothbard's Medieval 'investigation by a reason,' i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed.

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

Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.

No wife, no horse, no mustache

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

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

The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.

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

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a strange doctrine and almost implies that God and the devil must have collaborated on the creation of humanity, God working above the belly button and the Devil below.

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid in dark coners, nooks, and sink holes.

Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.

Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!

It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.

O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?

A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.