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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
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
The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.
— 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 had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.
— 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
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 complex develops out of the simple.
— Colin Wilson