Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

- Colin Wilson

Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.

- Colin Wilson

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.

- Colin Wilson

Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

- Colin Wilson

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

- Colin Wilson

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to t…

- Colin Wilson

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

- Colin Wilson

Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it …

- Colin Wilson

It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we ca…

- Colin Wilson