Quotes by : Colin Wilson

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

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

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 evolution,....

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

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

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

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

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

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