I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne’s Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.

— Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson Quotes

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

I’ve always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

— Colin Wilson

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

— Colin Wilson

Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious.

— Colin Wilson

But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world’s literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.

— Colin Wilson

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

The complex develops out of the simple.

— Colin Wilson

The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one’s own potentialities.

— 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

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.

— Colin Wilson

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

— Colin Wilson

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

— 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

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

— Colin Wilson

I’ve always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I’d find it an extremely difficult conflict because I’d be basically disinclined to accept.

— Colin Wilson

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

— Colin Wilson

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

— Colin Wilson

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

— Colin Wilson
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