Colin Wilson Quotes
Top 34 wise famous quotes and sayings by Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Human beings do not realise the extent to which their own sense of defeat prevents them from doing things they could do
perfectly well.
perfectly well.
If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.
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.
Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.
The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.
The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.
Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.
Man is a continent, but his conscious mind is no larger than a back garden ... man consists almost entirely of unrealized potentials.
If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.
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.
I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.
When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.
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.
Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?
Man is an animal who is trying to evolve into a god. Many of his problems are an inevitable result of this struggle.
I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.
The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.