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Quote for the day – June 18

18 Thursday Jun 2015

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“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

29 Wednesday Apr 2015

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Colin Wilson, Outsider

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“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

 

 

 

 

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