Colin Wilson Short Quotes

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... the Outsider's problem is the problem of denial of self-expression.

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Pessimism is a leaden weight around the feet. Defeat is always self-chosen.

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What can characterize the Outsider is a sense of strangeness, or unreality.

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The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent it's Outsiders.

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The Outsider may be an artist, but the artist is not necessarily an Outsider.

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At first sight, the Outsider is a social problem. He is the hole-in-corner man.

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It seems that thought itself has a power for which it has never been given credit.

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The individual begins that long effort as an Outsider; he may finish it as a saint.

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Crowley wanted to be a magician because he wanted power — power over other people.

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The Outsider is not a freak, but is only more sensitive than the average type of man.

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The Outsider has his proper place in the Order of Society, as the impractical dreamer.

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

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The unbeliever walks for a quadrillion miles, yet one moments of reality makes up for it.

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

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

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

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The Outsider is always unhappy, but he is an agent that ensures the happiness for millions of 'Insiders'.

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

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

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

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Sex gives us a glimpse or a concentration of the mind that would make us godlike if we could command it in other spheres.

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Art is thought, and thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show.

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

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I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

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Nietzsche's great concept of Yea-saying gave him a notion of purpose that is seen as positive. Nietzsche, in short, was a religious mystic.

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It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.

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In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

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The Outsider's miseries are the prophet's teething pains. He retreats into his room, like a spider in a dark corner; he lives alone, wishes to avoid people.

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The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or men who love living.

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One gloomy and pessimistic writer with a powerful style affects a whole generation of writers, who in turn affect almost every educated person in the country.

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