There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival g...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Privilege implies exclusion from privilege, just as advantage implies disadvantage," Celine went on....
ROBERT ANTON WILSON belief is the death of intelligence.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, exc...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but ag...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accid...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about the...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON But they can rule by fraud, and by fraud eventually acquire access to the tools they need to finish ...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON We all see only that which we are trained to see.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery wa...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ign...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ide...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to t...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON That night he wrote in his diary, "Challenge a remaining taboo." It was that simple. He had always w...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtu...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Getting even was the basis of many primate semantic confusions, such as"expropriating the expropriat...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of e...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goa...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON The Grail is the womb of the beloved.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is b...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of int...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes cert...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON A true initiation never ends.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pock...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Only the madman is absolutely sure.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even m...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON If it were Hegel, I m...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'Go...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON ...reality is always plural and mutable.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON ...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON ...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist re...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is becaus...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON The shock of discovering that most of the power in the world is held by ignorant and greedy people c...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON All of us should treasure his (John Dillinger) Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detac...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON . . . there are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to ...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Since theological propositions are scientifically meaningless, those of us of pragmatic disposition ...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world
ROBERT ANTON WILSON People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Belief is the death of intelligence
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt. . . . Idealists regarded everybody equally corrupt, ex...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON The hoodlum-occultist is “sociopathic” enough to, see through the conventional charade, the soci...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be a...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrate...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Only the madman is absolutely sure
ROBERT ANTON WILSON If you think you know what the hell is going on, you're probably full of shit.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. ...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destro...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink exc...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to loo...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON You know the difference between right and wrong,' he repeated finally. 'Man, why did you need Initia...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin ...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON I can summarize my thoughts now by simply saying each must find his or her own Way because "the way"...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choic...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Ipsum Nomen Res Ipsa: The Name Itself is the Thing Itself. I.N.R.I.: Isis, Apophis, Osiris: IAO.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON ...the distinction between "magick" and "communication" exits only in our traditional ways of thinki...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON To say that one goes on holiday is to speak the language of the working class, for whom the time off...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'l...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON We're living among infinite possibilities. And the prevalent philosophies of post-modernist pessimis...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the churc...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON If I still remember that all realities are neurological constructs and relative to the observer, I a...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
ROBERT WILSON The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more ...
ROBERT WILSON Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes cert...
ROBERT WILSON Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destro...
ROBERT WILSON No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why...
ROBERT WILSON Hedonic Engineering -- The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying...
ROBERT WILSON Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think ...
ROBERT WILSON If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to...
ROBERT WILSON My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people.
ROBERT WILSON By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure...
ROBERT WILSON Chairs are like sculpture.
ROBERT WILSON Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one bo...
ROBERT WILSON Light is architectural. It is sculptural.
ROBERT WILSON If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting a...
ROBERT WILSON My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.
ROBERT WILSON My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions.
ROBERT WILSON I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gest...
ROBERT WILSON There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. ...
ROBERT WILSON When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy whe...
ROBERT WILSON I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone wit...
ROBERT WILSON The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you ...
ROBERT WILSON I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed.
ROBERT WILSON Right now council is a part-time job but for me [but] I would want it to be a full-time job, ... I'm...
ROBERT WILSON I don't like politics per-se, ... but I want get in there try and do something good, if that is poss...
ROBERT WILSON On local issues, it is extremely important to run as an independent so that you can do what is right...
ROBERT WILSON Comparative advantage in the production of many of these requirements therefore lies outside China, ...
ROBERT WILSON You just have no idea what it was like trying to get out of there,
ROBERT WILSON I basically lost everything. By the time we knew we had to get out, there was no time. I brought my ...
ROBERT WILSON I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism.
ROBERT WILSON My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund ...
ROBERT WILSON New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much t...
ROBERT WILSON I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any word...
ROBERT WILSON What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or ...
ROBERT WILSON When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visi...
ROBERT WILSON I think that in my plays you can come in for 20 minutes and get something out of it. I'd like to...
ROBERT WILSON Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everyt...
ROBERT WILSON As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.
ROBERT WILSON Fort Franklin's ability to dig deep, focus and understand our business strategy helped guide our dec...
ROBERT WILSON There are many other studies, both clinical and non-clinical, that demonstrate homeopathy's efficacy...
ROBERT WILSON The study has to be done. I'm happy to see (DOT) has come around and they've recognized that this is...
ROBERT WILSON I attended public school in Houston. I took piano lessons for several years, and in high school, I p...
ROBERT WOODROW WILSON My high school career was undistinguished except for math and science. However, having barely been a...
ROBERT WOODROW WILSON An antenna collects radiation from a desired direction incident upon an area, called its collecting ...
ROBERT WOODROW WILSON A radiometer is a device for measuring the intensity of radiation. A microwave radiometer consists o...
ROBERT WOODROW WILSON There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and ye...
ROBERT WILSON LYND Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.
ROBERT WILSON LYND There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with ...
ROBERT WILSON LYND I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than ...
ROBERT CHARLES WILSON Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adu...
ROBERT CHARLES WILSON By definition, you can’t experience your own death. Death is the end of consciousness. And conscio...
ROBERT CHARLES WILSON … the vices and wickedness of the Secular Era, some of which still lingered, he said, in the citie...
ROBERT CHARLES WILSON Superstition...is what we call the miracles we don't approve of.
ROBERT CHARLES WILSON Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
ANTON CHEKHOV The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
ANTON CHEKHOV We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
ANTON CHEKHOV To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
ANTON CHEKHOV There is nothing new in art except talent.
ANTON CHEKHOV Only entropy comes easy.
ANTON CHEKHOV A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't...
ANTON CHEKHOV If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
ANTON CHEKHOV Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
ANTON CHEKHOV The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
ANTON CHEKHOV In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I go...
ANTON CORBIJN I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I expre...
ANTON YELCHIN You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness f...
ANTON CHEKHOV Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity ...
ANTON CHEKHOV A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
ANTON CHEKHOV If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter
ANTON CHEKHOV Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
ANTON CHEKHOV Medvienko: Why do you always wear black? Masha: I am in mourning for my life. I am unhappy.
ANTON CHEKHOV Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
ANTON CHEKHOV When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.
ANTON CHEKHOV Another piece of advice: when you proofread cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. You...
ANTON CHEKHOV One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
ANTON CHEKHOV The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the...
ANTON CHEKHOV When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
ANTON CHEKHOV Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night wi...
ANTON CHEKHOV Any idiot can face a crisis, it's the day to day living that wears you out.
ANTON CHEKHOV Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarri...
ANTON CHEKHOV Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
ANTON CHEKHOV If you cry Forward you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that i...
ANTON CHEKHOV Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
ANTON CHEKHOV Conciseness is the sister of talent.
ANTON CHECKHOV Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors...
ANTON CHEKHOV People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk ...
ANTON CHEKHOV Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
ANTON CHEKHOV If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
ANTON CHEKHOV Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
ANTON CHEKHOV Man is what he believes.
ANTON CHEKHOV We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
ANTON CHEKHOV I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it...
ANTON CORBIJN I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.
ANTON CORBIJN People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
ANTON CHEKHOV We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
ANTON CHEKHOV When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when yo...
ANTON CHEKHOV Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas do...
ANTON CHEKHOV The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squab...
ANTON CHEKHOV No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the...
ANTON CHEKHOV To advise is not to compel.
ANTON CHEKHOV Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
ANTON CHEKHOV There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.
SUSAN ANTON The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
ANTON CHEKHOV Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
ANTON CHEKHOV You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
ANTON CHEKHOV I don’t feel right about money. Remember, Anisim brought me new roubles and half roubles before th...
ANTON CHEKHOV To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow...
ANTON CHEKHOV Wine and tobacco destroy the individuality. After a cigar or a glass of vodka you are no longer Pete...
ANTON CHEKHOV Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chast...
ANTON CHEKHOV They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, ...
ANTON CHEKHOV The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
ANTON SEIDL Of course, experience strengthens one later.
ANTON SEIDL Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
ANTON SEIDL It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its...
ANTON SEIDL It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing th...
ANTON SEIDL I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparent...
ANTON SEIDL I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German ar...
ANTON SEIDL Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real ...
ANTON SEIDL Composers are not all good conductors.
ANTON SEIDL America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music school...
ANTON SEIDL