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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Defeat is always self-chosen. — Colin Wilson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The complex develops out of the simple. — Colin Wilson