Zitat des Tages von Colin Wilson:
The complex develops out of the simple.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.
I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.
Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.
Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work.