Colin Wilson Quotes
- The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
- I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.
- As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from the…
- Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.
- Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices…
- The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.
- It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we…
- It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of…
- Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell…
- The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
- The complex develops out of the simple.
- When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.
- What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation.
- Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.
- Fake people are like edit picture they look sexy but when you see them in person they not the same....