Colin Wilson Quotes About Feelings
-
It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings.
→ -
Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station. Poets feel that we are cut off from meaning by a thick, lead wall, and that sometimes for no reason we can understand the wall seems to vanish and we are suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of the infinite interestingness of things.
→ -
If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.
→ -
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.
→
Related Authors
-
John Jackson Miller Author -
Tobe Hooper Film director -
Friedrich Nietzsche Philologist -
-
Aleister Crowley Poet -
Robert Anton Wilson Author -
Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher -
Carlos Castaneda Author -
Brian Lumley Fiction writer -
H. P. Lovecraft Author -
John Wain Poet -
Jiddu Krishnamurti Writer -
G. I. Gurdjieff Teacher -
Rajneesh Guru -
Rudolf Steiner Philosopher -
Darwyn Cooke Comic Book Writer -
Abraham Maslow Psychologist -
H. P. Blavatsky Author -
Fred DuVal Businessman -
Graham Hancock Writer