Colin Wilson

“Man is not a 'fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant'. He changed drastically when he developed 'divided consciousness' to…

— Colin Wilson

“As to Gurdjieff's power to renew his own energies, its essence had been understood by psychologists of the nineteenth century, decades before…

— Colin Wilson

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

— Colin Wilson

The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with…

— Colin Wilson

“There is in Shaw, as in Gurdjieff and Nietzsche, a recognition of the immense effort of Will that is necessary to express…

— Colin Wilson

I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty…

— Colin Wilson

Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not…

— Colin Wilson

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

— Colin Wilson

Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings…

— Colin Wilson

Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is…

— Colin Wilson

It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility…

— Colin Wilson

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

— Colin Wilson

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

— Colin Wilson

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

— Colin Wilson

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot…

— Colin Wilson

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?

— Colin Wilson

I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.

— Colin Wilson

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

— Colin Wilson

If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you…

— Colin Wilson

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for…

— Colin Wilson

“Professor A. H. Maslow , for example, has conducted a series of researches into extremely healthy people that have led him to…

— Colin Wilson

Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox knows many things, the…

— Colin Wilson

“Modern man has the possibility of understanding the mechanism of consciousness, and marching directly towards his objective, with the will flexed to…

— Colin Wilson

Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

— Colin Wilson

The complex develops out of the simple.

— Colin Wilson