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We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Endure, Realities, Our, Fantasies

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Function, Pick, Unspeakable, Pockets

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

- Robert Anton Wilson

Paper, Outline, Ink, Territories

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

Woman, New, Kind, Pregnancy

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.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Other, Border, Last, Rival

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Individual, Exist, Fictions, Grammatical

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Goal, People, About, Generalized

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

- Robert Anton Wilson

Mind, Size, Contain, Constructs

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

- Robert Anton Wilson

Process, Certain Point, Initiation

A true initiation never ends.

- Robert Anton Wilson

True, Never, Ends, Initiation

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Own, Certitude, Belongs, Encyclopedia

The Grail is the womb of the beloved.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Beloved, Grail, Womb

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Corrupt, Everybody, Regarded, Cynics

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

Crusade, Religious, Sold, Spheres

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

- Robert Anton Wilson

Government, View, Big, Big Business

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Stupid, Common, Convinced, Accidental

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Perfect, Most, Even, Mammals

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

Production, May, Means, Celebrated

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.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Art, Goal, Process, Sitting

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Goal, Slave, Ideal, Enlightened

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

Real, Sense, Some, Phenomena

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Think, Here, Beam, Rational

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

- Robert Anton Wilson

Never, Human Being, Another, Experienced

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

- Robert Anton Wilson

Alone, Song, Longer, Hear

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

New, Way, Hours, Senility

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

- Robert Anton Wilson

View, Economics, Psychology, Everyman

There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Law, Sex, Shall, Universal

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

- Robert Anton Wilson

Cry, Abandoned, Infant, Rage

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

- Robert Anton Wilson

New, Philadelphia, Next, Dull

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

Eternity, United, Cross, Enter

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