The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Colin WilsonIf you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.
Colin WilsonI 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 WilsonThe mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.
Colin WilsonIt struck me that the popularity of Christmas is a matter of web-like consciousness. Childhood conditions us to relax and expand at Christmas, to forget petty worries and irritations and think in terms of universal peace. And so Christmas is the nearest to mystical experience that most human beings ever approach, with its memories of Dickens and Irving's Bracebridge Hall.
Colin Wilson