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Colin Wilson Quote: “The Outsider is he who cannot accept life as it is, who cannot consider his own existence or anyone else’s necessary. He sees ‘too deep and too much’.”

51. “The Outsider is he who cannot accept life as it is, who cannot consider his own existence or anyone else’s necessary. He sees ‘too deep and too much’.”

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Colin Wilson Quote: “Faculty X is the ability to grasp the reality not simply of other times and places, but of the present moment as well.”

52. “Faculty X is the ability to grasp the reality not simply of other times and places, but of the present moment as well.”

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Colin Wilson Quote: “It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.”

53. “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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Colin Wilson Quote: “Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?”

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

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Colin Wilson Quote: “Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can’t get out of.”

55. “Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can’t get out of.”

— Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson Quote: “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 by men who love living.”

56. “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 by men who love living.”

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Colin Wilson Quote: “I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that “the world” would decline to recognize them.”

57. “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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Colin Wilson Quote: “The “passion for incredulity” can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.”

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

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Colin Wilson Quote: “If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it’s the feeling there’s something basically wrong with human beings.”

59. “If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it’s the feeling there’s something basically wrong with human beings.”

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Colin Wilson Quote: “The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol – brighter than my students at university.”

60. “The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol – brighter than my students at university.”

— Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson Quote: “If I’d stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.”

61. “If I’d stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.”

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Colin Wilson Quote: “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.”

62. “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.”

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Colin Wilson Quote: “Mind is not really ‘inside’ us in the same sense that our intestines are. Our individuality is a kind of eddy in the sea of mind, a reflection of the total identity of the universal humanity.”

63. “Mind is not really ‘inside’ us in the same sense that our intestines are. Our individuality is a kind of eddy in the sea of mind, a reflection of the total identity of the universal humanity.”

— Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson Quote: “The Outsider is always unhappy, but he is the agent that ensures happiness for millions of ‘Insiders’.”

64. “The Outsider is always unhappy, but he is the agent that ensures happiness for millions of ‘Insiders’.”

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Colin Wilson Quote: “No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort’s principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.”

65. “No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort’s principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.”

— Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson Quote: “What if the ‘brutal thunderclap of halt’ takes the form of the choice, Dishonesty or insanity?”

66. “What if the ‘brutal thunderclap of halt’ takes the form of the choice, Dishonesty or insanity?”

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Colin Wilson Quote: “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.”

67. “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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Colin Wilson Quote: “One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of ‘life’ which begin with a description of man’s place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.”

68. “One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of ‘life’ which begin with a description of man’s place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.”

— Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson Quote: “Man lives and evolves by ‘eating’ significance, as a child eats food. The deeper his sense of wonder, the wider his curiosity, the stronger his vitality becomes, and the more powerful his grip on his own existence.”

69. “Man lives and evolves by ‘eating’ significance, as a child eats food. The deeper his sense of wonder, the wider his curiosity, the stronger his vitality becomes, and the more powerful his grip on his own existence.”

— Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson Quote: “During the course of an ordinary day, we are constrained by a kind of natural caution, an anticipation of possible difficulties and problems, which tint our consciousness a shade of grey. Talking and thinking about peak experiences makes us realize how lucky we are, and that we can dispense with the caution and constraint. It is like realizing that you have more money in the bank than you thought.”

70. “During the course of an ordinary day, we are constrained by a kind of natural caution, an anticipation of possible difficulties and problems, which tint our consciousness a shade of grey. Talking and thinking about peak experiences makes us realize how lucky we are, and that we can dispense with the caution and constraint. It is like realizing that you have more money in the bank than you thought.”

— Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson Quote: “If we force ourselves to press on, a surprising thing happens. The fatigue gets worse, up to a point, then suddenly vanishes, and we feel better than before.”

71. “If we force ourselves to press on, a surprising thing happens. The fatigue gets worse, up to a point, then suddenly vanishes, and we feel better than before.”

— Colin Wilson

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