Author of quotes: Colin Wilson. Page 2

Science says that it is useful to learn from their past, but it is dangerous and foolish to believe that our future is completely determined by our past.

... existence as a pariah, cast out by society is not natural to humans. If it continues for too long, it causes a feeling of uselessness and fatigue life.

... to see real suffering, real hell is to recognize that there must be a more noble way of life available to us.

We are all experiencing the impact of the greatest human mysteries - the boredom more than anything else, is able to "overshadow" our prosperity. But at the last second priest, Graham Greene suddenly realizes that "it would be so easy to stay Holy." Raskolnikov realizes that if he will have a lifetime to stand on the narrow ledge in the darkness, and tempest, that he still prefer this life is instant death. Even American gangster Charlie Birger noticed standing on the scaffold: "And this world is beautiful, isn't it?" We deny this freedom every second of life, except for brief flashes of insight. But still she remains the most interesting possibility, which man possesses.

Life remains a blessing, although we cannot bless.

In critical moments a person realizes that he possesses a much higher degree of freedom than expected.

... murder is the meaninglessness of life, came to action: dramatization of the hidden futility of existence. It is a human act, with all its inherent values, put under a microscope slide, where it cannot dissolve into expressionless surrounded by other human actions. The study of murder is not the study of abnormalities of human nature: it is the study of human nature stained by an act that manifests it on the microscope slide.

The larger and tsentralizovannaya the society becomes, the greater the number of socially irresponsible individuals it generates. The anonymity of society creates a riot, or scornful indifference. Therefore, the age of centralization is the age of young offenders and sexual predators.

In accordance with the theory of Maslow, the attitude of the person comes from a rising scale of primary values. The first of them - the need for food. Once she is satisfied, there is a need for shelter. Satisfy her, and then there will be the need for love the need to feel their belonging to society as a whole, and the physical proximity of one person. After satisfaction of this passion occurs the fourth need is self-esteem. And finally, on top of the pyramid is the need for self-realization - the full manifestations of their abilities.

"Stranger" is a person who believes that accept us civilization is not that other, as a denial of the most fundamental human values. Intuitively he understands that life is infinitely more diverse than you think; and what we are, is a parody of our ability. He feels a deep alienation - from both oneself and from society. He is aware of its own internal duality and yet understands that it is imperative to find inner unity.
Because of the inability to feel "his" in this world "the outsider" closes and crosses what Wilson called the "threshold of indifference". It is a state of anguish, despondency, indifference, which is often expressed as boredom. And boredom creates a chain of negative reactions, amplifying itself, until it becomes unbearable. Thus, for an "outsider" life - rather than stimulating the mind process knowledge, and senseless, passive swimming with the current.

But the artist embodies his own emotional vision into reality, because "reality" is all the circumstances of all people, and he feels the desire to show what it means for him.

Many years ago, in 1887, Max Mueller [...] noticed that our ancestors two thousand years ago were almost colour blind like most animals today. Xenophon knew only three colors of the rainbow - purple, red and yellow, even Aristotle speaks only of the three-color rainbow, and Democritus knew of no more than four colors - black, white, red and yellow. Homer, apparently, was that the sea has the same color as the wine. [...] There is no doubt that in a thousand years people will see a dazzling Universe with a dozen colours that do not exist for us.

Dr. foster said: "I am Confident in the evidence of the fact that the natural nature of matter is that atoms are the alphabet of the Universe, chemical compound - words and DNA most likely - a long sentence or even a whole book that expresses something like the concept of "elephant", "giraffe" or even "man."

Science hates "teleology" - the concept of purpose.