Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
Colin Henry Wilsonwas an English writer, philosopher and novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal. Wilson called his philosophy "new existentialism" or "phenomenological existentialism", and maintained his life work was "that of a philosopher, andpurpose to create a new and optimistic existentialism"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth26 June 1931
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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.
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The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
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Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.
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What it means basically is that you're able to focus until you suddenly experience that sense that everything is good,
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What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation.
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I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.
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When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.
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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.
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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.