Colin Wilson Quotes

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Colin Wilson

Rain, Accepting, Standing

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson

Change, Power, Mind

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.
Colin Wilson

End, Real, Same

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
Colin Wilson

Play, Stage, Written

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.
Colin Wilson

Famous, Fun, Lose

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

Afraid, Ideas, Writer

I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.
Colin Wilson

Hard, Pretty, Books

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

Writer, London, Parties

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

Work, Feeling, Human

The complex develops out of the simple.
Colin Wilson

Simple, Complex, Develops

What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation.
Colin Wilson

Philosophy, Try, Wanted

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.
Colin Wilson

Romantic, Books, Total

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work.
Colin Wilson

Work, Past, Person

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: June 26, 1931

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