Quotes by Robert Wilson

• 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.
• The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
• The average is that which no person quite ever is.
• The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
• Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.
• 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.
• Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.
• The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
• Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
• The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
• On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
• Only the madman is absolutely sure.
• There is no complete theory of anything.
• The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
• The Grail is the womb of the beloved.
• The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
• The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
• 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.
• The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.
• There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.
• We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.
• 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.
• You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
• Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
• 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.
• 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.
• Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
• There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
• Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
• A true initiation never ends.
• 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.
• An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
• Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
• Belief is the death of intelligence.
• Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
• Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.
• Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
• Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
• Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
• Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
• It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
• I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
• I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.
• Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
• History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
• Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.
• Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
• Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
• Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
• I built my own hi-fi set and enjoyed helping friends with their amateur radio transmitters, but lost interest as soon as they worked.