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Robert Anton Wilson

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Robert Anton Wilson is the kind of thinker who lets the words do the talking — and they talk volumes. Their thinking spans from History to Government, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Our collection holds 18 quotes from Robert Anton Wilson, each offering a different angle on History, Government, God, War, and Truth. A favorite of many readers: "Belief is the death of intelligence."

“Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

Truth

All Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson

“The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

Alone

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

History

“Belief is the death of intelligence.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

Death

“Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

Time

“You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

Government

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

Business

“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.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

God

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

Fear

“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.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

Communication

“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.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

God

“Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

Truth

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

Love

“When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

History

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

History