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• Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is the feeling that man is not the mere he has always taken himself for. Romanticism began as a tremendous surge of optimism about the stature of man. Its aim - like that of science - was to raise man above the muddled feelings and impulses of his everyday humanity, and to make him a god-like observer of human existence.

  Colin Wilson

  Taken, Optimistic, Men

  "Introduction to the New Existentialism". Book by Colin Wilson, p. 96, 1966.

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• Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used for dismantling a refrigerator or a car, or used for hammering in nails, or even for knocking somebody out.

  Colin Wilson

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Car

  "Introduction to the New Existentialism" by Colin Wilson, (p. 92), 1966.

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• If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

  Colin Wilson

  Party, London, Ifs

  "Where the outsider went next". Interview with Lisa Gee, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2002.

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• Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

  Colin Wilson

  Animal, Reality, Men

  Colin Wilson (1985). “The essential Colin Wilson”

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• In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

  Colin Wilson

  Men, Thinking, Years

  "The Encyclopedia of Modern Murder 1962-1983". Book by Colin Wilson, Introductory Essay, p. xiv, 1983.

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• The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol - brighter than my students at university.

  Colin Wilson

  Ideas, Philadelphia, America

  Interview with Paul Newman, Abraxas Unbound #7,

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