Colin Wilson World Quotations

The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.

The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.

As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from the incredible has tended to blur; I am aware that the whole world is slightly incredible

Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.

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

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.