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# Colin Wilson

(1931–2013)   Writer   United Kingdom

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Colin Wilson was a writer from the United Kingdom, best known for *The mind parasites*.

## Quick Facts About Colin Wilson

Born June 26, 1931

Died December 5, 2013

Nationality United Kingdom

Profession Writer

Notable works The mind parasites

Known for The Occult: A History, The Outsider, The Book of Time

## About Colin Wilson

Colin Henry Wilson was an English existentialist philosopher-novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal, eventually writing more than a hundred books. Wilson called his philosophy "new existentialism" or "phenomenological existentialism", and maintained his life work was "that of a philosopher, and (his) purpose to create a new and optimistic existentialism".

##  Quotes by Colin Wilson · Page 2

> [Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/too-much-success-gets-you-resting-on-your-laurels-and-creates-a-kind/)

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> [“Human beings do not realise the extent to which their own sense of defeat prevents them from doing things they could do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/human-beings-do-not-realise-the-extent-to-which-their-own-sense-of/)

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> [“Man is a continent, but his conscious mind is no larger than a back garden…man consists almost entirely of unrealized potentials.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/man-is-a-continent-but-his-conscious-mind-is-no-larger-than-a-back/)

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[Conscious mind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conscious-mind/)

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> [The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/the-mystical-impulse-in-men-is-somehow-a-desire-to-possess-the/)

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[Desire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/desire/)

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> [Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/criminals-interest-me-because-they-re-driven-by-the-same-desires-as/)

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> [I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/i-m-basically-a-writer-of-ideas-and-the-english-aren-t-interested-in/)

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> [It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/it-was-rousseau-who-was-largely-responsible-for-the-problem-by-giving/)

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> [The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/the-mind-has-exactly-the-same-power-as-the-hands-not-merely-to-grasp/)

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> [The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/the-sheer-volume-of-evidence-for-survival-after-death-is-so-immense/)

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[After death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/after-death/)

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> [“The evidence of paranormal research shows that there is a part of our being that knows far more than the conscious mind.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/the-evidence-of-paranormal-research-shows-that-there-is-a-part-of-our/)

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> [Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/sexual-activity-is-driven-by-the-same-aims-and-motives-as-reading/)

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> [“In his embryonic form, as the Outsider, he does not know himself well enough to understand the driving force behind his feelings.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/in-his-embryonic-form-as-the-outsider-he-does-not-know-himself-well/)

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> [If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/if-you-can-train-your-senses-to-perceive-the-movement-of-the-minute/)

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> [Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/christianity-was-an-epidemic-rather-than-a-religion-it-appealed-to/)

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> [“As to Gurdjieff's power to renew his own energies, its essence had been understood by psychologists of the nineteenth century, decades before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/as-to-gurdjieff-s-power-to-renew-his-own-energies-its-essence-had/)

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[Energies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/energies/)

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> [The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/the-basic-paradox-about-sex-is-that-it-always-seems-to-be-offering/)

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> [“The nineteenth century was the Age of Romanticism; for the first time in history, man stopped thinking of himself as an animal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/the-nineteenth-century-was-the-age-of-romanticism-for-the-first-time/)

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> [It seemed perfectly possible that, in spite of my certainty of my own genius, I might die of some illness, or perhaps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/it-seemed-perfectly-possible-that-in-spite-of-my-certainty-of-my-own/)

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> [“The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent on its Outsiders. Many Outsiders unify themselves, realize themselves as poets or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/the-vitality-of-the-ordinary-members-of-society-is-dependent-on-its/)

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[Community](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/community/)

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> [“There is in Shaw, as in Gurdjieff and Nietzsche, a recognition of the immense effort of Will that is necessary to express…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/there-is-in-shaw-as-in-gurdjieff-and-nietzsche-a-recognition-of-the/)

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> [Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/religion-mysticism-and-magic-all-spring-from-the-same-basic-feeling/)

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> [Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/now-the-basic-impulse-behind-existentialism-is-optimistic-very-much/)

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> [If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/if-i-d-stayed-on-in-london-and-carried-on-going-to-literary-parties/)

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> [A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/a-symphony-is-a-stage-play-with-the-parts-written-for-instruments/)

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> [What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/what-i-wanted-to-do-was-to-try-to-create-a-philosophy-upon-a/)

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> [Fake people are like edit picture they look sexy but when you see them in person they not the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/fake-people-are-like-edit-picture-they-look-sexy-but-when-you-see/)

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> [When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/when-i-open-my-eyes-in-the-morning-i-am-not-confronted-by-a-world-but/)

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> [I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/i-had-never-doubted-my-own-abilities-but-i-was-quite-prepared-to/)

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> [Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/could-it-be-that-sexual-perversion-and-romanticism-sprang-from-the/)

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[Horizon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/horizon/)

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> [The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/the-self-surmounter-can-never-put-up-with-the-man-who-has-ceased-to/)

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> [Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/phenomenology-is-not-a-philosophy-it-is-a-philosophical-method-a-tool/)

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> [But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/but-zarathustra-made-it-clear-in-which-direction-the-answer-lay-it-is/)

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> [The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/the-exploration-of-oneself-is-usually-also-an-exploration-of-the/)

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> [The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/the-americans-have-always-been-more-open-to-my-ideas-in-fact-i-could/)

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> [Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/faculty-x-is-a-sense-of-reality-of-other-places-and-other-times-and/)

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> [As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/as-a-young-man-i-was-scornful-about-the-supernatural-but-as-i-have/)

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> [The effects of mescalin or LSD can be, in some respects, far more satisfying than those of alcohol. To begin with, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/the-effects-of-mescalin-or-lsd-can-be-in-some-respects-far-more/)

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> [When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/when-we-pull-back-and-get-for-a-moment-the-bird-s-eye-view-of-life-it/)

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> [I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/i-ve-always-believed-that-a-writer-has-got-to-remain-an-outsider-if-i/)

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> [Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/simple-perception-then-is-a-fallacy-besides-the-conscious-prejudices/)

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