Colin Wilson Quotes

The nineteenth century was the Age of Romanticism; for the first time in history, man stopped thinki...

Reade drew a deep breath. He said with resignation, "All right. I'll try to explain. But it's rather...

These men are in prison: that is the Outsider’s verdict. They are quite contented in prison—caged an...

Oh . . . I'd been getting pretty sick of the office. It made me feel dead inside. Finally, the week-...

Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden ...

Man knows himself as body, and what he knows of spirit comes through grace. The poet would call it i...

No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious ass...

Faculty X is simply that latent power in human beings possess to reach beyond the present. After all...

And in a flash I understood the meaning of sex. It is a craving of mingling of consciousness, whose ...

The cultural problem was 'the fallacy of insignificance', and it was a philosophical form of this fa...

Sometimes life is intensely interesting and meaningful, and this meaning seems to be an objective fa...

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

As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that di...

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

There can be no doubt that the chief fault we have developed, through the long course of human evolu...

You've a perfect right to call me as impractical as a dormouse, and to feel I'm out of touch with li...