Ability Quote by Colin Wilson

“I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.”

Colin Wilson

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Ability Believe Decline Doubted My own Prepared World

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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.

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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 even a…

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

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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 because it…

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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.

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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 sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station. Poets feel that we are cut off from meaning by a thick, lead wall, and that sometimes for no reason we can understand the wall…

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

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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 and discipline.

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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.

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I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

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Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength, nights, days, youth, age, and spend them in Thy service, 0 my crucified Master, Redeemer, God. Oh, let not these be mere words! Whom have I in heaven but Thee and there is none upon earth…

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