Colin Wilson > Quotes

“Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.”
― Colin Wilson

“I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.”
― Colin Wilson

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

“As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from the incredible has tended to blur; I am aware that the whole world is slightly incredible”
― Colin Wilson

“إن واجبنا هو أن نقرر ما إذا كانت هذه الطريقة في النظر إلي الأشياء هي أكثر صحة, أكثر موضوعية من الطريقة التي تعودنا عليها. و حتي إذا قررنا مقدما بأن الجواب سيكون :لا, فإننا سنتعلم كثيرا من تمرننا علي تغيير وجهة نظرنا.”
― Colin Wilson

“It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.”
― Colin Wilson, A Criminal History of Mankind

“Un tomēr jūs pārņem dīvaina tukšuma sajūta — lai ko jūs darītu, nekam nav nozīmes. Tieši tas noteikti ir divdesmitā gadsimta "morālā bankrota" cēlonis.”
― Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites

“إنه لم يشعر بكامل حريته و حياته إلا في أيام الحرب,و هو في خوف دائم من الخيانة و الموت. إنه لمن الواضح أن الحرية ليست كونك تفعل ما تريد, إنها شدة الإرادة,و هي تظهر في أي ظرف يحدده الإنسان و يبعث الحياة في إرادته”
― Colin Wilson

“The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.”
― Colin Wilson, A Criminal History of Mankind

“Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist.”
― Colin Wilson, A Criminal History of Mankind

“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 the entrapment in the left-brain ego. His favorite method of compensation has been to seek out excitement. He feels most free in moments of conquest; so for the past three thousand years or so, most of the greatest man have led armies into their neighbours' territority, and turned order into chaos. This has plainly been a retrogressive step; the evolutionary urge has been defeating its own purpose.”
― Colin Wilson, A Criminal History of Mankind

“نريد أن نتجنب كل ما يغرينا علي اعتبار اللامنتمي فنانا, فإذا فعلنا ذلك بسطنا السؤال التالي أكثر من اللازم: مرض هو أم بصيرة؟ و ليس في أكثر الفنانين العظام شئ من اللامنتمي.
قد يكون اللامنتمي فنانا, إلا أنه ليس من الضروري أن يكون الفنان لا منتميا”
― Colin Wilson

“Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.”
― Colin Wilson, The Occult

“It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings.”
― Colin Wilson, A Criminal History of Mankind

“It is important to graps that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings.”
― Colin Wilson, A Criminal History of Mankind