Desire Quote by Colin Wilson

“The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.” quote by Colin Wilson — Download Open image

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

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Desire Impulse Men Mystical Possessed Universe

More by Colin Wilson

“Man is not a 'fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant'. He changed drastically when he developed 'divided consciousness' to cope with complexities of civilisation, and has been changing steadily ever since. His greatest problem, the problem that has caused most of his agonies and miseries, has been his attempt to compensate for the narrowing of cinsciousness and…

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 the age…

Colin Wilson

Image

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

Colin Wilson

Image

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

Colin Wilson

Image

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

Colin Wilson

Image

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

Colin Wilson

Image

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

Colin Wilson

Image

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…

Colin Wilson

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

Colin Wilson

Image

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

Colin Wilson

Image

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

Colin Wilson

Image

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

Colin Wilson

Image

Explore all 81 Colin Wilson quotes

More Desire quotes

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

Ted Martinez

Image

Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.

David Easton

Image

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is…

John Burns

Image

Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes…

John Armstrong

Image

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

Frederick Douglass

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

Jean Rostand

Image

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and…

Victor Hugo

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not…

John Steinbeck

Image

“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

John Dewey

Image

In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented…

Betsy Lerner