Colin Wilson quotes

" The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. " # Mind # Change # Power

" A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. " # Music # Acting and Actors # Pornography

" In the civilisation a new law of hostility prevails. And to call it the law of the jungle is unfair to the jungle. " # Law and Lawyers # Politicians and Politics # Love

" The complex develops out of the simple. " # Simplicity

" Anyone who can understand that the Buddhist idea of Nirvana is not merely negative, and that the Buddha himself who (like the Superman) 'looks down on suffering humanity like a hillsman on the planes' is not an atheistic monster, will instantly see how this misses the point. Nietzsche was not an atheist, any more than the Buddha was. Anyone who reads the Night Song and the Dance Song in Zarathustra will recognize that they spring out of the same emotion as the Vedic or Gathic hymns or the Psalms of David. The idea of the Superman is a response to the need for salvation in precisely the same way that Buddhism was a response to the 'three signs'. " # Atheism # Marriage # Books - Reading

" Nietzsche's great concept of Yea-saying gave him a notion of purpose that is seen as positive. Nietzsche, in short, was a religious mystic. " # Death and Dying # Mystics and Mysticism # Purpose

" I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest. " # Infatuation # Heroes and Heroism # Politicians and Politics

" 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. " # AIDS # Christians and Christianity # Fear