Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Everything contains its antithesis.

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

One's not half two. It's two are halves of one.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

The seed of everything is in everything else.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Do not focus too much on the east and forget the west. And do not ignore the south, to speak for the north. What happens in the east has effects in the north, as the west has in the south. And do not focus on one species and ignore the other. Or love your father but ignore your mother, or love your sister but ignore your brother. Do not forget each other. We are all part of each other. We are all ONE.

Nothing is the shadow of Everything.

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

Duality is always secretly unity.

Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.

I am the drop that contains the ocean

And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything.