Quote for the day – December 1

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Colin Wilson, The Outsider

“For the Outsider, the world into which he has been born is always a world without values. Compared to his own appetite for a purpose and a direction, the way most men live is not living at all; it is drifting. This is the Outsider’s wretchedness, for all men have a herd instinct that leads them to believe that what the majority does must be right. Unless he can evolve a set of values that will correspond to his own higher intensity of purpose, he may as well throw himself under a bus, for he will always be an outcast and a misfit”.

Colin Wilson, The Outsider

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Quote for the day – July 25

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Colin Wilson

“Now the Outsider is not necessarily the rebel, but the rebel is undoubtedly a most important type of Outsider. The rebel attempts to assert that existence comes before essence, that Will comes before authority”.

Colin Wilson, Religion and the Rebel

Quote for the day – June 18

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Colin Wilson, mysticism, Outsider

“The Outsider develops, by immense spiritual effort, into the mystic. He does this by turning his life into a state of warfare, and living with the mental alertness that is necessary to warfare”.

Colin Wilson, Religion and The Rebel

Quote for the day – April 29

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Colin Wilson, Outsider

“The Outsider’s way of thinking is called existentialism. But it might as easily be called religion. It is a way of thought which, like the religious way, regards man as involved in the universe, not just a spectator and observer, a sort of naturalist looking at the universe through a magnifying-glass and murmuring: ‘Mmm. Most interesting’”.

Colin Wilson, Religion and the Rebel

 

 

 

 

Quote for the day – March 25

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Colin Wilson, existentialism, intuition

“Existentialism is the revolt against mere logic and reason. It is a plea for intuition and vision. It is a plea for recognising oneself as being involved in the problems of existence as a participant, not just as a spectator”.

Colin Wilson, Religion and the Rebel