The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Colin WilsonFaculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of itโfragmentary and uncertain though it isโthat distinguishes man from all other animals.
Colin WilsonIf you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?
Colin WilsonNow the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is the feeling that man is not the mere he has always taken himself for. Romanticism began as a tremendous surge of optimism about the stature of man. Its aim - like that of science - was to raise man above the muddled feelings and impulses of his everyday humanity, and to make him a god-like observer of human existence.
Colin Wilson