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Colin Wilson quotes: The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Colin Wilson quotes: Human beings do not realise the extent to which their own sense of defeat prevents them from doing things they could do perfectly well.

Human beings do not realise the extent to which their own sense of defeat prevents them from doing things they could do
perfectly well.

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

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 quotes: Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

Colin Wilson quotes: A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Colin Wilson quotes: Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

Colin Wilson quotes: Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

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

Colin Wilson quotes: The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.

Colin Wilson quotes: Defeat is always self-chosen.

Defeat is always self-chosen.

Colin Wilson quotes: Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

Colin Wilson quotes: The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.

The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.

Colin Wilson quotes: Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.

Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.

Colin Wilson quotes: What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation.

What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation.

Colin Wilson quotes: Man is a continent, but his conscious mind is no larger than a back garden ... man consists almost entirely of unrealized potentials.

Man is a continent, but his conscious mind is no larger than a back garden ... man consists almost entirely of unrealized potentials.

Colin Wilson quotes: Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.

Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.

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

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

Colin Wilson quotes: When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

Colin Wilson quotes: Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

Colin Wilson quotes: The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

Colin Wilson quotes: Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

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

Colin Wilson quotes: What if the 'brutal thunderclap of halt' takes the form of the choice, Dishonesty or insanity?

What if the 'brutal thunderclap of halt' takes the form of the choice, Dishonesty or insanity?

Colin Wilson quotes: The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

Colin Wilson quotes: I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

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

Colin Wilson quotes: I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

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

Colin Wilson quotes: I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.

I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.

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

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

Colin Wilson quotes: The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an "I", but it is not his true "I".' His main business is to find his way back to

The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an "I", but it is not his true "I".' His main business is to find his way back to himself.

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

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

Colin Wilson quotes: Man is an animal who is trying to evolve into a god. Many of his problems are an inevitable result of this struggle.

Man is an animal who is trying to evolve into a god. Many of his problems are an inevitable result of this struggle.

Colin Wilson quotes: The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

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

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

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

Colin Wilson quotes: The body will destroy the germs of a physical illness within a week; but the mind will preserve germs of morbidity or fear for a lifetime.

The body will destroy the germs of a physical illness within a week; but the mind will preserve germs of morbidity or fear for a lifetime.

Colin Wilson quotes: The complex develops out of the simple.

The complex develops out of the simple.