We live in our myths, we only endure reality. Robert Anton Wilson More Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson More Quotes From Robert Anton Wilson [My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.' Robert Anton Wilson historical-novels eight feet All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense. Robert Anton Wilson unreal meaningless real Reality is what you can get away with. Robert Anton Wilson pop-art get-away reality O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten? Robert Anton Wilson darkness fear heart Each mans spills the drink he loves. Robert Anton Wilson spills drink Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it. Robert Anton Wilson repeats needs 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. Robert Anton Wilson originality attitude lying I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. Robert Anton Wilson dread optimism looks My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an Robert Anton Wilson libertarian long fiction 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 Robert Anton Wilson wall tired stupid A true initiation never ends. Robert Anton Wilson initiation ends I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively. Robert Anton Wilson hopeless labels meditation Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very childish forms of conceit in a world of infinitely whirling complexity. None of us can see enough from one corner of space-time to know "all" about the rest of space-time. Robert Anton Wilson space faith book [Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara. Robert Anton Wilson marijuana red stories Conspiracy is just another name for coalition. Robert Anton Wilson coalitions conspiracy names The things that hinder me are opportunities to learn more and develop further. Robert Anton Wilson hinder opportunities-to-learn opportunity Creativity has a touch of the bizarre Robert Anton Wilson bizarre creativity I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe. Robert Anton Wilson brother hurt mother You can "prove" anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning. Robert Anton Wilson prove levels accepting Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse. Robert Anton Wilson editors brain firsts
