Quote #3
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
More from Colin Wilson
- The complex develops out of the simple.
- A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
- The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
- I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that 'the world' would decline to recognize them.
- (Art)... rescues us from our self chosen triviality, to which we are so prone. It is like a deep organ note that makes my hair stir and a s…